Christine's review
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
The Science of Doctor Misdiagnosis -- Jerome Groopman is the chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, teaches at Harvard Medical School and is a writer for the New Yorker. Groopman is a doctor who realizes he needs a doctor as the result of an experience in which he found himself plagued by a wrist injury that resulted in multiple diagnoses and treatments from four different doctors with no clear and rationale diagnosis. As a result, he decides to embark on a journey to understand How Doctors Think.
His results are simultaneously illuminating and confirmatory of our own questions, doubts and frustrations when talking with doctors or confronted with difficult diagnoses. Through multiple interviews with doctors and patients in Boston and San Francisco hospitals, Groopman discusses why and how doctors make errors of misdiagnosis and along the way he provides some very useful tips for how to: talk to your doctor, question your doctor, help yo...more
His results are simultaneously illuminating and confirmatory of our own questions, doubts and frustrations when talking with doctors or confronted with difficult diagnoses. Through multiple interviews with doctors and patients in Boston and San Francisco hospitals, Groopman discusses why and how doctors make errors of misdiagnosis and along the way he provides some very useful tips for how to: talk to your doctor, question your doctor, help yo...more
