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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.
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