How doctors think / Jerome Groopman
By: Groopman, Jerome E.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780547053646 (pbk.).Subject(s): Medicine -- Decision making | Medical logic | Physicians -- Psychology | Decision Making | Logic | Clinical Medicine -- methods | Diagnostic Errors | Judgment | Physicians -- psychologyGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | R723.5 .G75 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000008868 |
"A Mariner book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Flesh-and-blood decision making -- Lessons from the heart -- Spinning plates -- Gatekeepers -- A new mother's challenge -- The uncertainty of the expert -- Surgery and satisfaction -- The eye of the beholder -- Marketing, money, and medical decisions -- In service of the soul -- Epilogue : a patient's questions
A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately