false <![CDATA[How Doctors Think]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172528425m/185897.jpg 185897 9 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 behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can -- with our help -- avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. <P>Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. <P>How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together. 2057949 2007 How Doctors Think total:1079|5:169|4:486|3:348|2:63|1:13| 1079 3972 1845 281 5 3 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 16:05:22 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 11:09:43 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 12:04:27 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 17:34:06 -0700 2009
* "We see this sometimes" when said about a case that has some atypical features. The doctor is basically telling you that s/he has stopped thinking.

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The title explains this book perfectly, as Groopman shows us that doctors are subject to the same cognitive errors as everyone else. He ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 06:50:39 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 16:19:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 02 16:41:04 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 23:13:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:44:43 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:44:43 -0800 2009 Jerome Groopman, Harvard professor of medicine, AIDS and cancer researcher, and New Yorker staff writer in medicine and biology, isn't new to the popular medical-writing scene. Before How Doctors Think, he penned three other books__The Anatomy of Hope, Second Opinions, and The Measure of Our Days__t...

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"Patients and their loved ones swim together with physicians in a sea of feelings. Each needs to keep an eye on a neutral shore where flags are planted to warn of perilous emotional currents"...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 07:23:32 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 08:07:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:05:06 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:18:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 07:14:59 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:06:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 07:33:03 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 18:18:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 17 08:52:24 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 13:46:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 21:21:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 14:23:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 18:40:08 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:33:44 -0700 2009 How Doctors Think is full of interesting stories, and I appreciated that Dr. Groopman used the complete names for diseases and disorders. I never felt that his tone was condesce...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 09:04:57 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 08:12:53 -0700 2009
-Humans make mistakes.

-Doctors are human.

-Therefore, doctors make mistakes.

Ta-da!

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The author also offers insights into how th...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=185897