How Doctors Think

By Jerome E. Groopman,

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A groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment.…

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1 author picked How Doctors Think as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Reading this book set off fireworks in my brain. It is so engaging and as easy to read as a novel, but it is so much more life-changing.

Every chapter covers a different error of thinking, and page after page it brought back memories of when I had made exactly those same mistakes in my own clinical practice.

If there is one book I wish I had read earlier in my career, it would be this one because I think I would have saved more lives that way.

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