Jerome Groopman's Insightful Guide to the Minds of Physicians

Nikahat P.: This is the best book to understand what and how a doctor should think about a patients condition and treatment. The language is easy and examples are given for better understanding. Any person who is thinking to take up medicine as a career solid read this book. I read it and it's great. Got to know a lot new things and opened up my perspective of medicine.
The book arrived before time and was in perfect condition so thanks amazon for your service.

India on Jan 12, 2018

Maurmesa: As MD i find this book a must read by medical students and doctors. Also good for patients in order for them to play a more active role in their care.

Canada on Sep 22, 2017

sheryll reid: This book contains vital information for every person. Dr. Groopman wrote it because he knew that he himself had made mistakes in diagnosis and treament of patients - of course not intentionally - but because doctors make value judgments too and don't always listen to patients. He suggested that every patient, when diagnosed with something should ask "What else could it be?" or when pain is noted in a certain region that the patient ask what organs are there. These gentle questions stop the process of a doctor rushing to judgment about what something is or is not and can save the patient a good deal of trouble.

Canada on Jul 19, 2017

Amazon Customer: A reminder that Doctors are fallible.

That it's most professional for a doctor to say 'I do not know',

That opinions, expectations from a patient,from families of patients, can oft be unrealistic. Pressurizing a doctor to offer a fabrication to preserve an ego!

That to be in the position of 'Doctor', carries and enormous responsibility. That doctors need to be nurtured.

Totally refreshing and an expose of being vulnerably human

A good read for one and all . . . . . !

United Kingdom on May 11, 2017

C. buck: I bought this after reading a review in New Scientist magazine when it first came out. As a practitioner and academic (acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine - 30 years)I have developed an understanding of medical pitfalls and "How Doctors Think" made me realise its not just me - even many doctors (Groopman is doctors clinical tutor)are concerned about the state of modern medicine and are taking the problem seriously enough to do research into the errors that occur and how they can be avoided. The author not only discusses this work but gives us the specialist terms for the thinking errors that lie behind medical mistakes - such as "search satisfaction" - when the person stops thinking as soon as they have thought of a diagnosis that might conceivably explain the symptoms. Groopman devotes a chapter to his own experience of trying to navigate the medical maze and getting hopeless and potentially risky care from "top" US specialists. Like another reviewer I have bought a few copies of this book to give as presents - mainly to medical students, with the hope of having them grow up able to avoid the mistakes. This book is great too for all kinds of medical professionals, alternative...

United Kingdom on May 22, 2012

Rasih Bensan: I purchased both the book and the audio CD. After listening to the CD I circulated an e - mail to my friends saying : " Everybody ought to read How Doctors Think by Dr. Jerome E. Groopman. Read it whether you are a doctor or not. As a doctor or as a patient you may have experienced similar unfortunate events explained in the book. In that case read the book to never go through the same events. If you have not gone through such experiences read the book so that you will never have to suffer from similar inconveniences."

Although a recent book "How doctors think " by Dr. Jerome E Groopman of Harvard Medical School has already caught a lot of attention and has been translated to different languages and is being sold in various countries. I am not a doctor. As patients my family and I have had to resort to the services of doctors many times. Not necessarily for big illnesses, sometimes only for check ups. In general we are quite healthy. I was attracted by the title of the book. Dr. Groopman explains very clearly what goes on in the minds of both the doctors and their patients and how their thinking styles affect their communication, the diagnoses and treatments. He gives many...

United States on Dec 31, 2007

Dr. Richard G. Petty: Most doctors are highly educated, hard working people. They may sometimes get a bit tetchy because they overwhelmed by the demands made on them, but most of the time they do their best. Yet in our blame culture there are places in America where you can't get a specialist to treat you: they have all been driven out of business by lawyers representing unhappy clients. The question of why this has come to pass has occupied the minds of the American medical profession for three decades.

For more than a decade, Groopman's trenchant analyses have always been illuminating, and he has a rare gift for communicating them.

This is one of the best books that he has written, about one of the issues that may lead to medical errors: simply not thinking well. It is a very real factor. We all - and not just doctors - jump to conclusions; believe what others tell us and trust the authority of "experts." Clinicians bring a bundle of pre-conceived ideas to the table every time that they see a patient. If that have just seen someone with gastric reflux, they are more likely to think that the next patient with similar symptoms has the same thing, and miss his heart disease. And woe...

United States on May 28, 2007