How Doctors Think

275 Pages·2007·2.86 MB·English

by  Jerome E Groopman

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman M.D.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Epilogue: A Patient's Questions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Footnotes
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON • NEW YORK
2007
Copyright © 2007 by Jerome Groopman
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Groopman, Jerome E.
How doctors think / Jerome Groopman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-61003-7
ISBN-10: 0-618-61003-0
1. Medicine—Decision making. 2. Medical logic.
3. Physicians—Psychology. 1. Title.
R723.5.G75 2007
610—dc22 2006035718
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Robert Overholtzer
MP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The illustration on page 139 is by Michael Prendergast AUTHOR'S NOTE
In order to protect their privacy, the names and certain identifying
characteristics of all of the patients whose medical histories are
described in this book have been changed. In addition, Dr. Karen
Delgado, Dr. Bert Foyer, Dr. Wheeler, Rick Duggan, and
Drs. A, B, C, D, and E are fictitious names.
FOR MY MOTHER
Ayshet chayil
( a woman of valor)
We carve out order by leaving the
disorderly parts out.
—William James
Contents
Introduction [>]
1. Flesh-and-Blood Decision-Making [>]
2. Lessons from the Heart [>]
3. Spinning Plates [>]
4. Gatekeepers [>]
5. A New Mother's Challenge [>]
6. The Uncertainty of the Expert [>]
7. Surgery and Satisfaction [>]
8. The Eye of the Beholder [>]
9. Marketing, Money, and Medical Decisions [>]
10. In Service of the Soul [>]
Epilogue: A Patient's Questions [>]
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [>]
NOTES [>]
INDEX [>]