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A New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the ultimate medical mystery: how doctors figure out the best treatments -- or fail to do so. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within twelve seconds. In... read more
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- Rachel Stein: Add a description of this character.
- Shira Stein
- Karen Delgado
- Mcevoy
- Bigby
- Pat Croskerry
- Tepler
- Brad Miller
- Watson
- Nimer
- Evan Mckinley
- Kressel
- George Franklin
- Mr. Morgan
- Nathan
- Anne Dodge
- Feldstein
- Duggan
- Shim
- Orwig
- Dr. Light
- Redelmeier
- Carver
- Maxine Carlson
- Stan
- Leslie
- Wheeler
- Rivera
- Falchuk
- Dashiell
- Katz
- Mancini
- Baby O'connell
- Sutton
- Blanche Begaye
- Cassell
- Mrs. Clark
- Pam
First Sentence edit
ON A SWELTERING MORNING in June 1976, I put on a starched white coat, placed a stethoscope in my black bag, and checked for the third time in the mirror that my tie was correctly knotted.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
1. Flesh-and-Blood Decision Making
2. Lessons from the Heart
3. Spinning Plates
4. Gatekeepers
5. A New Mother's Challenge
6. The Uncertainty of the Expert
7. Surgery and Satisfaction
8. The Eye of the Beholder
9. Marketing, Money and Medical Decisions
10. In Service of the Soul
Epilogue: A Patient's Questions
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jerome E. Groopman (Author)
Awards edit
- Quill Award (2007: Health/Self Improvement)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 610
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Medical › Administration & Medicine Economics › Public Health › Health Care
- Books › Professional & Technical › Medical › Medicine › Doctor-Patient Relations
- Books › Medicine › Physician & Patient › Physicians
- Books › Medicine › Education & Training
- Books › Health, Mind & Body
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