How doctors think /

Groopman, Jerome E.

How doctors think / Jerome Groopman. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. - 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Flesh-and-blood decision making -- Lessons from the heart -- Spinning plates -- Gatekeepers -- A new mother's challenge -- The uncertainty of the expert -- Surgery and satisfaction -- The eye of the beholder -- Marketing, money, and medical decisions -- In service of the soul -- Epilogue : a patient's questions.

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Medicine--Decision making.
Medical logic.
Physicians--Psychology.
Judgment.
Decision Making.
Clinical Medicine.

R 723.5 / .G75 2007

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