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How Doctors Think
Verlag:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: EYD59VW
EAN: 9780547053646
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Beschreibung
"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care. " —Time. magazine. From Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a. groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen 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 revolutionary book, Dr. Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Drawing on extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors and Groopman's own experiences as a doctor and as a patient, How Doctors Think. reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients a way to make better judgments together.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jerome Groopman
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Softcover
Anzahl Seiten
- 336