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How doctors think / Jerome Groopman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groopman, Jerome E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Decision making.
- Medicine.
- Medical logic.
- Physicians--Psychology.
- Physicians.
- Judgment.
- Decision Making.
- Clinical Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Judgment.
- Decision Making.
- Clinical Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
- Summary:
- A "New Yorker" staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
- Contents:
- Flesh-and-blood decision-making
- Lessons from the heart
- Spinning plates
- Gatekeepers
- A new mother's challenge
- The uncertainty of the expert
- Surgery and satisfaction
- The eye of the beholder
- Marketing, money, and medical decisions
- In service of the soul
- Epilogue: a patient's questions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0618610030
- 9780618610037
- OCLC:
- 74569241
- Online:
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