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How doctors think / Jerome Groopman ; [with a new afterword].
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks R723.5 .G75 2008
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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:
- 319 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Mariner Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
- Summary:
- A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately.
- 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
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "A Mariner Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780547053646
- 0547053649
- 0618610030
- 9780618610037
- OCLC:
- 213414124
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