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agate
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 Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject: HOW DOCTORS THINK by Jerome Groopman, MD (2007) |
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I posted a few remarks about this book on my books blog, and I'm pasting them here too:
HOW DOCTORS THINK by Jerome Groopman, MD (2007)
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The author is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and has had a very distinguished career in medical research as well as in his writings about medicine.
In this book he isn't protecting his colleagues from criticism. In fact, he often subjects them to criticism, and it is refreshing in a time when the medical profession often seems like a closed circle of people determined to defend their turf.
Are doctors wrong in their diagnoses? Surprisingly many are, according to this book.
Are doctors influenced in their choice of treatments by the lavish gifts showered on them by the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries? Yes indeed, Groopman demonstrates--singling out spinal fusion as an example of a procedure that is often done unnecessarily for the relief of low back pain.
Are entirely too many MRIs being ordered? Most definitely. And just how accurately are MRIs read by the experts? Tests have been done that have shown that MRI readings are often astonishingly inaccurate.
Dr. Groopman backs up his claims with substantial evidence.
The author analyzes ways doctors think because they're in the habit of thinking in those ways, and ways in which better doctors think because they are curious and daring enough to venture into the realm of less obvious possibilities when it comes to diagnosis and treatment.
This was an interesting and valuable book.
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cricket52
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Thanks Agate - both this book and the one above sound like great reads.
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