9780547053646-0547053649-How Doctors Think

How Doctors Think

ISBN-13: 9780547053646
ISBN-10: 0547053649
Edition: Reprint
Author: Jerome Groopman
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Paperback 319 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780547053646
ISBN-10: 0547053649
Edition: Reprint
Author: Jerome Groopman
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Paperback 319 pages

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How Doctors Think (ISBN-13: 9780547053646 and ISBN-10: 0547053649), written by authors Jerome Groopman, was published by Mariner Books in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Diagnosis (Medicine, Doctor-Patient Relations) books. You can easily purchase or rent How Doctors Think (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Diagnosis books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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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.

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.

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.

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