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Also by Jerome Groopman:

Your Medical Mind, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
How Doctors Think, March 2007
Hardcover

HOW DOCTORS THINK
By: Jerome Groopman

Houghton Mifflin
March 2007
On Sale: March 19, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0618610030
EAN: 9780618610037
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing his symptoms within twelve seconds, in that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this mythshattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman 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 call profoundly impact our health. A doctor’s specialty, the technology he relies on, his age and his emotional state can all produce different sorts of mistakes, and few doctors are trained to think about how they think—to recognize when their cognition is going astray. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. In unraveling the sources of faulty diagnosis and treatment, Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors and his own experiences as a doctor 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 made 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 vital information they need to make better judgments together.

Media Buzz

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - February 12, 2008
Today - October 15, 2007
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - May 15, 2007
Charlie Rose - March 20, 2007
Early Show - March 20, 2007
Colbert Report - March 19, 2007
Morning Edition - March 16, 2007
Fresh Air - NPR - March 14, 2007