How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman PDF/ePub Download

May 16, 2018 Medical

Download How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman PDF/ePub eBook free. The book “How Doctors Think” is a great reminder for physicians on common cognitive errors and how to avoid them as much as possible.

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“How Doctors Think” is one of the best books for medical students and physicians. Jerome Groopman is the author of this book. Jerome holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He spent most of his time in experiments and has published more than 150 scientific articles. His book “How Doctors Think” is a great reminder for physicians on common cognitive errors and how to avoid them as much as possible. It offers a distinctive look into the structure of Big Medica in search for what exactly is the type of mindset Doctors employ when practicing their jobs.

The theme of trying to attach a diagnosis to a patient that doesn’t quite fit often based on their demographics or what is ‘most likely’ is reiterated throughout the book. Of course, common conditions can present in uncommon ways, but the emphasis on trying to reach a diagnosis right away opens up the risk of missing something important one example cited aortic dissection misdiagnosed as musculoskeletal pain and another a compression fracture that turned out to be cancer in a young boy. While these examples are extreme they are certainly not unheard of.