How Doctors Think

Jerome Groopman, M.D., is a Harvard Medical School professor and the chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of How Doctors Think, The Anatomy of Hope, Second Opinions, The Measure of Our Days, and other books, as well as a staff writer for The New Yorker.

A physician will usually interrupt a patient who is describing her symptoms after eighteen seconds. Many doctors make decisions on the most likely diagnosis and best treatment in that short period of time. Decisions made in this manner are frequently correct, but they can also be incorrect at critical times, with disastrous consequences. Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make in this revolutionary book, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. How Doctors Think reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients a way to make better decisions together, based on extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors and Groopman's own experiences as a doctor and as a patient.

Author: Jerome Groopman

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