Likewise, they tend not to acknowledge ambiguity.
"It was easily understandable that each of her doctors received her case within that one frame.
In this very engaging and well-researched book, Jerome Groopman, a practicing oncologist with expertise in AIDS-related malignancies. Don't hate them because the prescribe expensive drugs or inconclusive tests.
Then I discovered an unconventional cure. You need to work with them and force them to communicate their thinking. 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.
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How Doctors Think (Hardcover) Larry Prusak is an independent consultant who has co-authored 12 books and many articles. I found the most interesting part to be why doctors misdiagnose patients: it's not incompetence, usually, but rather cognitive errors. Doctors are human beings and as such, can have biases in how they practice medicine.
", For their part, doctors should be wary of diagnoses that appear instantly obvious. Don't hate them because the prescribe expensive drugs or inconclusive tests.
Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? You ‘d be able , at the end of it, to answer some of the main Questions that Dr Jerome Groopman had first asked such as ; How should a doctor think? However, Montgomery dismisses this duality and takes a middle path in describing medicine as a practice or, paradoxically, as a ‘science of individuals’.
We’d love your help. Many medical students and doctors are surprisingly incurious about human narrative, to which they have almost unparalleled access. The first theme is that doctors who don’t listen to their patients are likely to make serious mistakes in diagnosis and treatment. There was no apparent reason to redraw her clinical portrait, to look at it from another angle. Unable to add item to List. Following each example of incorrect diagnosis there is an analysis of the reasons why the errors were made. I found that the audiobook was so effective in its delivery and reading of the book. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Many are poor listeners and like to hear themselves talk. 0000039648 00000 n would rather be outside than inside — alone, in charge of a floor of sick people. Drawing on both personal experience and extensive field research, Dr. Groopman sheds light on the faulty decision making that leads otherwise competent physicians down the wrong path in diagnosing and treating their patients. 0000058780 00000 n There are numerous ideas and suggestions for patients to use in improving. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published 'How Doctors Think' Dr. Jerome Groopman, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written a book about how doctors make decisions regarding their patients.It's called How Doctors Think.
Groopman's free-flowing anecdotal style is his strength, and his unique perspective and journalistic skill are highlighted in the chapter entitled, "Marketing, Money, and Medical Decisions." You see it all as a trauma surgeon: accidental erections, rats entertaining children, Russian spies, and exploding Chinese toilets. All Rights Reserved.