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ShareOn average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds.
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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 myth-shattering 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 can profoundly impact our health.
This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses.
How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track.
For more information about the title How Doctors Think, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
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