How Doctors Think Quotes

“I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.”
― Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think

“Statistics cannot substitute for the human being before you; statistics embody averages, not individuals.”
― Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think

“A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.”
― Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think

“The probability that a diagnostic test will be positive if the disease is present (sensitivity), the probability that a test would be negative if the disease is absent (specificity).”
― Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think