How Doctors Think

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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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Why read it?

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

Jessica Nutik Zitter, M.D.

Author

This is an honest, vulnerable book in which the author, an experienced physician at the top of his game, questions his own approach to patients.

Are we doctors as “scientific” as we think we are, or are we just dependent on rigid protocols and implicit, incorrect beliefs that cause harm? The book provides a road map for doctors and lay readers alike to rethink the doctor-patient relationship and all the decision-making that comes from it.

From Jessica's list on understanding the physician mind.

Cassandra Arnold

Author

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.

From Cassandra's list on becoming the doctor your patients need you to be.