How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

How Doctors Think

Jerome Groopman

320 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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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 moment...

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