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A FRESH 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 this. This book describes the indicators of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask. Typically, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. For the reason that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial occasions they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this particular myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. 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 effect on our health and wellness. This book is the first ever to describe in detail the indicators of erroneous medical thinking, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on an abundance of research, intensive interviews with a few of the country's best physicians, and his own activities as a health care provider and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors manufactured in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the essential information they need to make smarter judgments together.
