Harvard Medical School professor andNew Yorkerstaffer Jerome GroopmansHow Doctors Thinkis single-minded in its exploration of what goes on in a doctors mind as he or she treats a patient.
Often, decisions about a patient are made within seconds and influenced by the doctors own personal and professional biases.
The flip side of Groopmans steadfast devotion to his topic, of course, is that he risks wearing down his reader with too many examples of how doctors can go wrong.
Its enough to make the most carefree readers fear for their lives.A-
For Gilbert Cruzs take on another recently published study of flaws in medical care from a physicians perspective, seeBetterby Atul Gawande.
