He 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 have a profound impact on our health. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong-with catastrophic consequences. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask. 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.
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