Second Opinions: 8 Clinical Dramas Intuition Decision Making Front Lines Medn
8 Clinical Dramas Intuition Decision Making Front Lines medn
$52.73
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2001
Summary
One of the greatest challenges patients and their families face is how to evaluate and act on medical advice. Swept up in the rush of events, anxious about the prognosis, facing a blur of technical jargon, fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily over-whelmed by treatment choices.Told in eight gripping clinical dramas, Second Opinions reveals the forces at play in making critical medical decisions. Dr. Jerome Groopman illuminates the world of medicine, where knowledge is imp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140298628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140298622 |
| Author: | Jerome Groopman, M.D. Groopman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2001 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“Compelling….Each of the parables in this book…teaches us how medical decisions are made, both wisely and unwisely. They also teach us how to evaluate the medical advice we receive.” –The Wall Street Journal
Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman, editor, has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for “The New Yorker” since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books, most recently, “Anatomy of Hope” and “How Doctors Think”, which was a “New York Times” bestseller.
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