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    How doctors think / Jerome Groopman.

    • Title:How doctors think / Jerome Groopman.
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    • Author/Creator:Groopman, Jerome E.
    • Published/Created:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Decision making.
      Medical logic.
      Physicians--Psychology.
    • Medical Subjects: Decision Making.
      Logic.
      Clinical Medicine--methods.
      Diagnostic Errors.
      Judgment.
      Physicians--psychology.
    • Edition:1st Mariner Books ed.
    • Description:319 pages : port ; 21 cm.
    • Summary:A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately.
    • Notes:"A Mariner book."
      "With a new afterword."--Cover
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780547053646 (pbk.)
      0547053649 (pbk.)
      0618610030
      9780618610037
    • Contents:Flesh-and-blood decision making
      Lessons from the heart
      Spinning plates
      Gatekeepers
      A new mother's challenge
      The uncertainty of the expert
      Surgery and satisfaction
      The eye of the beholder
      Marketing, money, and medical decisions
      In service of the soul
      Epilogue : a patient's questions.
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