How Doctors Think | 
| Author: Jerome Groopman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Category: Book
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0618610030
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9780618610037
ASIN: 0618610030
Publication Date: March 19, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Great shape, great service! May 9, 2008
The book I ordered came promptly, was packaged well, and was in pristine condition. I was very pleased.
 How Doctors Think May 8, 2008
I had checked out a copy from the library. A friend who had recently had to deal with her parent's illnesses started reading it and couldn't stop. So I bought a copy for her. It is worth having on hand as it has many ideas about dealing with doctors and knowing when to support, question, review or seek other ideas. Some of their thinking reflects the training of medical school and it is helpful to know why certain patterns of thinking are so prevalent.
I also appreciated the chapters on reading xrays, tests, etc. and how much that can vary from expert to expert or time to time. It makes me realize that if I don't put effort into my doctor's analysis, I may well get an inaccurate one.
 How Doctors Think May 6, 2008
Groopman brings a refreshing account concerning the cognition abilities of physicians and its residual affects upon their patient interactions. He conveys that physicians inadvertently rely upon their initial professional socialization processes while in medical school by learning different matrices in determining diagnoses. That this mindset is ingrained with some physicians does reflect negatively on patients with deleterious effects. Especially, as these physicians becomes more entrenched in the course of their medical careers, in terms of his/her professional demeanor and acumen. That external forces also influence these purportly medically derived diagnoses: indifference, reimbursement, and conflict of interest. He infers that reluctancy exists among some physicians in delving into the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis for their patients. This grays the physician-patient relationship that the latter believes about the former.
Chapter nine really illustrates the effect of the pharmaceutical industry upon physicians. Groopman states that there is a definite need for pharmaceutical research in exploring effective medications, but delineates that ethical standards are circumvented. He places the reader's perspective into the mindset of physicians by illustrating their practical terminology and analysis matrices. This is an excellent read for researchers, physicians, medical ethicists, social scientists and students to gain further insight into the cognitive reasoning by physicians as they conduct formulate and conclude medical diagnoses.
Interesting May 5, 2008
Interesting and insightful look behind the scenes when you have a potentially very serious medical condition
Interesting read April 30, 2008
As a family doctor, I felt compelled to read this text. It was more like a compliation of ideas and stories and life experiences, which was not what I expected. It did not have any novel ideas, but was worth reading.
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