Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine
by Jerome Groopman
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A unique insider's view of today's complex and often contentious world of medicine Anxious about the prognosis, lost in a blur of technical jargon, and fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily overwhelmed by treatment choices. Told through 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 imperfect, no therapy is without risks, and no show more outcome is fully predictable. He portrays moments of astute diagnosis and misguided perception, of lifesaving triumphs and shattering failures. These real-life lessons prepare us to navigate the uncertain terrain of illness, and enable us to balance intuition and information, and thereby make the best possible decisions about our health and future. show lessTags
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Jerome Groopman writes with great compassion and humanity. If you enjoy true medical stories, I highly recomment this book and the next two that he has written. You will find out a lot about how doctors make diagnoses and how they can sometimes be very mistaken. Groopman never loses sight of the human stories behind both the patients and the doctors trying to do the best for them.
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Jerome Groopman, M.D., is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Jerome Groopman MD
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Publisher's editor
- Drzal, Dawn; Goldstein, Janet
- Blurbers
- Chase, Marilyn; Sachs, Oliver, MD; Kushner, Harold S., Rabbi
- Disambiguation notice
- Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine (Hardcover, 2000) and Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine (Trade Paperback, 2001) are the... (show all) same book.
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- Dutch, English
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