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Book 55: I listened to the audio version of How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (****) and although I don't take in information as well by ear as by eye, this one kept me interested during much of a 10-hour road trip.
Not sure who the audience is for this book -- the content seems too complex ...
... return tomorrow night by reading Joshua Ferris's ad-agency satire, Then We Came to the End.
Also finishing up audio of How Doctors Think from a recent road trip.
80. How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
59. How Doctors Think
>175, Thanks, Linda! Most days I don't feel very amazing, lol. You're pretty fantastic yourself...
>178, I have How Doctors Think on my shelf, I will probably read it after I'm done with this class. I don't think I can add any extra medical books during the semester without going crazy!
... book, so if you're only going to read one, I'd choose Complications.
Another really good book in a similar vein is How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, which I recommend.
... reedom
The Circle of Karma
The Search for the Perfect Language
Natural Novel (Eastern European Literature Series)
How Doctors Think
The Villagers
The Railway by Hamid Ismailov
Yalo
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
Treatment Kind and Fair
The Razor's Edge
Ali ...
Nonfiction
Conquering Fear by Harold Kushner (****)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (****)
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (****)
In Cheap We Trust by Lauren Weber (****)
Listening to Prozac# by Peter D. Kramer (****)
Methland by Nick Reding (****)
Summer World ...
... >(See review)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (****)
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (****)
In Cheap We Trust by Lauren Weber (****) (See review) ...
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8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
9. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1. How Doctors Think
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3. Book Thief
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5. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
6. There Is No Me W ...
... obviously a Woman Without a Past" he replied, whereupon he was immediately Struck by Lightening.
Before anyone could Think or even Blink, A Keen Soldier called for help. Or, so it seemed. In reality, he was only Mouthing the Words.
And that's What Happened to Henry.
... up with:
The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse
From the buy one get one half off table I got:
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman and
New England White by Stephen L. Carter.
When I got home, I found the mailman had delivered, from AbeBooks:
A Satur ...
I am listening to How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman. The material is interesting, but it feels like he could have used an editor. Perhaps it was that some of the material had been published in the New Yorker and so were somewhat self contained and tended to restate the premise.
I love Bill ...
25. How Doctors Think ... by Jerome Groopman
I'm working on How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, it's available as an Amazon ebook for the Kindle as well as the dead tree edition. It goes into the thought processes doctors use when making decisions. The decision making logic can be applied to pretty much any job, but it's fascinating ...
... Guide to Gulf Coast marine life
QM McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy
QR A Field Guide to Germs
R How Doctors Think
RA Forensic Pathology
RB Basic Pathology
RC An Anthropologist on Mars
RG Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy
RJ 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching ...
... Williams
21. The Incredible 5-Point Scale, by Kari Buron Dunn
22. An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks
23. How doctors Think , by Jerome Groopman
24. The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
26. Torture the Ar ...
Just started How Doctors Think which along with Made to Stick gives me something to ponder. Have been reading Ghost Soldiers from bedside table and listening to Teaching Company political science CD.
Just started How Doctors Think which along with Made to Stick gives me something to ponder. Have been reading Ghost Soldiers from bedside table and listening to Teaching Company political science CD.
I've read a lot of great nonfiction lately. Some of the best:
How Doctors Think -- excellent peek behind the scenes of medicine.
Two for the Road -- Jane and Michael Stern write a memoir about their journeys reviewing American road food.
Rumspringa -- When Amish children turn 16, ...
Got it (gift from my Dad!) But now I have to (1) finish Elantris, (2) read How Doctors Think before a medical consult on Monday (3) start and finish The God Delusion for my men's book club, and (4) read Letters to a Christian Nation before it is overdue from the library... THEN I can read ...
How Doctors Think , by Groopman and Arabesque, a middle east cookbook. Eclectic, no?
Groopman is a Boston oncologist, writes for the New Yorker among other places, and is what is generally known as a mensch. He suggests that this new book of his, altho purportedly for the layperson, ...
Groopman takes a close, thoughtful, balanced look at the all-too-human, and thus all-too-fallible thought processes of doctors. He draws on a large number ...
