How Doctors Think
$44.77
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2008
Summary
“Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care.” –Time magazine
From Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical decision-making, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to mak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780547053646 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0547053649 |
| Author: | Jerome E. Groopman |
| Publisher: | Harper Paperbacks |
| Imprint: | Harper Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
“Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care.” - Time
“Every reflective doctor will learn from this book… every prospective patient will find thoughtful advice for communicating successfully.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
”[Groopman’s] most essential book yet.” - Boston Phoenix
“Groopman has written a unique, important and wonderful book…You’ll never look at your own doctor in the same way again.” - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, bestselling authors of Freakonomics
“Splendid and courageous… Groopman lifts the veil on the most taboo topic… the pervasive nature of misdiagnosis.” - Ron Chernow, New York Times bestselling author
“A sage, humane prescription for medical practitioners and the people who depend of them.” - O, the Oprah Magazine
“A cogent analysis of all the wrong ways his fellow practitioners are trained to approach the patients they treat.” - Elle
“A book to restore faith in an often-resented profession.” - Booklist
Jerome E. Groopman
Jerome Groopman, M.D. is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New Republic. He is author of The Measure of Our Days (1997), Second Opinions (2000), Anatomy of Hope (2004), How Doctors Think (2007), and the recently released, Your Medical Mind.
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