How Doctors Think
 

How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes... (read more)

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Mike B
  • Rated 4 stars

As someone involved in the biomedical sector, I deeply appreciated Groopman's depiction of specific instances and a rational for why physicians think the way they do. Most critically for any of us who are, or may be, consumers of the practice of medicine, this glimpse into the mechanics (not necessarily just the logic, but also the emotions) of thought progression by diagnosticians is powerful. Groopman is to be congratulated by advocating specific ways patients can foster healthier (more...

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Hildy A
  • Rated 2 stars

Perhaps this might be more interesting to people who don't have a lot of interaction with physicians, but as someone who works with them every day, I didn't learn a lot that I didn't know.

So I think it's a good book, but not for people who already have somewhat regular interaction with physicians.

I got bored and put it down.

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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    posted Saturday, November 3 2007
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