The author shows the reader how to become a “partner” in his or her own healthcare and how to assist in the treatment of family members. I wrote a list of these questions to keep in my wallet. Little wonder that contemporary physicians locate medicines healing authority in science rather than in its best, most authentic source, the care of patients ' Kathryn Montgomery 1.

In the end, Groopman explains tactful questions that we need to ask in order to help our doctors find answers. This year’s book is How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D. How doctors think: Clinical judgment and the practice of medicine. The book has helped me to understand how my own doctor might think and why, and how I can better help him to help me. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate. In this way Groopman builds a case for the questions that we need to ask when we seek a diagnosis or treatment. We learn about the thinking that led to correct or incorrect diagnoses. Groopman cites incidents from real life, calling on his own experience and that of physicians who are well-known in their fields to illustrate both successes and failures. The book also shows how patients can get the most out of their encounters with their physician, by asking intelligent questions, accurately describing all their. It is an absorbing book that kept me up past my bedtime because I couldn’t put it down. This is not a quick how-to book, but a well-written explanation of how a doctor’s medical training and experience can lead him or her to a specific diagnosis or treatment. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track.

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