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From Publishers Weekly *Starred Review.* Signature*Reviewed by* Perri KlassI wish I had read this book when I was in medical school, and I'm glad I've read it now. Most readers will knowJerome Groopman from his essays in the *New Yorker*, which take on a wide variety of complex medical conditions, evocatively communicating the tensions and emotions of both doctors and patients.But this book is something different: a sustained, incisive and sometimes agonized inquiry into the processes by which medical minds—brilliant, experienced, highly erudite medical minds—synthesize information and understand illness. *How Doctors Think *is mostly about how these doctors get it right, and about why they sometimes get it wrong: "[m]ost errors are mistakes in thinking. And part of what causes these cognitive errors is our inner feelings, feelings we do not readily admit to and often don't realize." Attribution errors happen when a doctor's diagnostic cogitations are shaped by a particular stereotype. It can be negative: when five doctors fail to diagnose an endocrinologic tumor causing peculiar symptoms in "a persistently complaining, melodramatic menopausal woman who quite accurately describes

Who reads How Doctors Think?

Author

Jerome E. Groopman

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547053646

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Psychology

Rating

3.89 / 5 (8,640 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14