How Doctors Think
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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. The New York Times Sunday Book Review - Michael Crichton This elegant, tough-minded book recounts stories about how doctors and patients interact with one other. In the hands of Jerome Groopman, professor of medicine at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, these clinical episodes make absorbing reading and are often deeply affecting. At the same time, the author is commenting on some of the most profound problems facing modern medicine … Here is Groopman at the peak of his form, as a physician and as a writer. Readers will relish the result.
Introduction 1Flesh-and-Blood Decision-Making 27Lessons from the Heart 41Spinning Plates 59Gatekeepers 77A New Mother's Challenge 101The Uncertainty of the Expert 132Surgery and Satisfaction 156The Eye of the Beholder 177Marketing, Money, and Medical Decisions 203In Service of the Soul 234Epilogue: A Patient's Questions 260Afterword 271Acknowledgments 283Notes 286Index 304
