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Your Medical Mind How to Decide What Is Right for You

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ISBN-10: 014312224X

ISBN-13: 9780143122241

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jerome Groopman, Pamela Hartzband

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Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether we’re deciding to take a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting expert opinions, confusing statistics, conflicting media reports, the advice of friends, claims on the Internet, and a never-ending stream of drug company ads. Your Medical Mind shows us how to chart a clear path through this sea of confusion. Drs. Groopman and Hartzband reveal that each of us has a set of deeply rooted beliefs whose profound influence we may not realize when we make medical decisions. How much trust we place in authority figures, in statistics or in…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jerome Groopman, M.D., holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of How Doctors Think, The Anatomy of Hope, Second Opinions, The Measure of Our Days, and other books.

Introduction
Where Am I in the Numbers?
Believers and Doubters
But is it Best for Me?
Regret
Neighborly Advice
Autonomy and Coping
Decision Analysis Meets Reality
End of Life
When the Patient Can't Decide
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index