Posted on 28/04/07
Help your doctor treat you well
How Doctors ThinkBy Jerome GroopmanHoughton Mifflin,307 pages, $34.95In his foreword, Jerome Groopman promises, "The epilogue offers words that patients, their families and their friends can use to help a physician or surgeon think, and thereby better help themselves." Readers may be tempted to skip to the end, since such a revelation is much of the attraction in knowing How Doctors Think. Resist the temptation, because the great beauty of this book is in Groopman's elegant discourse on the journey of medical thinking. Meanwhile, one of his principal arguments is that being too anxious to arrive at an absolute diagnosis and treatment plan may be a great liability to both doctor and patient. Some situations are better served by an allowance for uncertainty.
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