How Doctors Think Book
Score: 3.5
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How Doctors Think

  • Author : Jerome Groopman
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • File Size : 5,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2008-03-12
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 336
  • ISBN 10 : 9780547348636
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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

How Doctors Think Book
Score: 3.5
From 30 Ratings

How Doctors Think

  • Author : Jerome Groopman
  • Publisher : Scribe Publications
  • File Size : 15,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2010
  • Genre: Medical logic
  • Pages : 331
  • ISBN 10 : 9781921640216
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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can with our help avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track.Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors, and his own experience as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his debilitating medical problems.How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

How Doctors Think Book
Score: 4
From 1 Ratings

How Doctors Think

  • Author : Kathryn Montgomery
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 6,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 258
  • ISBN 10 : 9780195187120
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"Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies heavily on clinical reasoning." "In How Doctors Think, Kathryn Montgomery contends that assuming medicine is strictly a science can have adverse effects. She suggests these can be significantly reduced by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgment."--BOOK JACKET.

What Doctors Feel Book
Score: 4
From 5 Ratings

What Doctors Feel

  • Author : Danielle Ofri
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • File Size : 9,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2013-06-04
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 232
  • ISBN 10 : 9780807073339
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A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on medical care. And while much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. In What Doctors Feel, Dr. Danielle Ofri has taken on the task of dissecting the hidden emotional responses of doctors, and how these directly influence patients. How do the stresses of medical life—from paperwork to grueling hours to lawsuits to facing death—affect the medical care that doctors can offer their patients? Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Danielle Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. With her renowned eye for dramatic detail, Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients and her forever fear of making another. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. But doctors don’t only feel fear, grief, and frustration. Ofri also reveals tha

Your Medical Mind Book
Score: 3.5
From 7 Ratings

Your Medical Mind

  • Author : Jerome Groopman
  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • File Size : 20,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2012-08-28
  • Genre: Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 322
  • ISBN 10 : 9780143122241
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Offers advice on making medical decisions in spite of confusing and conflicting information, and provides insight into the beliefs influencing how choices are made while citing the marketing practices that complicate the process.

What Patients Say What Doctors Hear Book
Score: 4
From 22 Ratings

What Patients Say What Doctors Hear

  • Author : Danielle Ofri, MD
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • File Size : 12,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-02-07
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 248
  • ISBN 10 : 9780807062647
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Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things. Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to “make their case” to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. Though the gulf between what patients say and what doctors hear is often wide, Dr. Danielle Ofri proves that it doesn’t have to be. Through the powerfully resonant human stories that Dr. Ofri’s writing is renowned for, she explores the high-stakes world of doctor-patient communication that we all must navigate. Reporting on the latest research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients, Dr. Ofri reveals how better communication can lead to better health for all of us.

How Doctors Think Book
Score: 3.5
From 29 Ratings

How Doctors Think

  • Author : Jerome E Groopman
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • File Size : 5,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2007
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 307
  • ISBN 10 : 0618610030
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A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately.

How Doctors Think and Learn Book

How Doctors Think and Learn

  • Author : Derek Burke
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • File Size : 7,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-08-10
  • Genre: Education
  • Pages : 191
  • ISBN 10 : 9783030462796
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This book describes the theoretical basis for the acquisition; development and refining of professional medical skills from entry level into professional training to those developing specialist expertise. Chapters review the presently available literature on educational theory, the cognitive processes underpinning memory and learning, skill acquisition, competence and assessment and reflection. A synthesis is also presented on why a particular theoretical foundation model of professional skill acquisition should be adopted based on the current understanding of traditional educational theory, theories of cognitive development and neurophysiology. How Doctors Think and Learn details the theoretical basis for acquiring and developing professional medical skills and is an essential resource for all those who deliver medical education, training and professional development.

When Doctors Don t Listen Book
Score: 5
From 2 Ratings

When Doctors Don t Listen

  • Author : Dr. Leana Wen
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • File Size : 8,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2013-01-15
  • Genre: Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 10 : 9781250013576
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In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, Drs. Wen and Kosowsky argue that diagnosis, once the cornerstone of medicine, is fast becoming a lost art, with grave consequences. Using real-life stories of cookbook-diagnoses-gone-bad, the doctors illustrate how active patient participation can prevent these mistakes. Wen and Kosowsky offer tangible follow-up questions patients can easily incorporate into every doctor's visit to avoid counterproductive and even potentially harmful tests. In the pursuit for the best medical care available, readers can't afford to miss out on these inside-tips and more: - How to deal with a doctor who seems too busy to listen to you - 8-Pillars to a Better Diagnosis - How to tell the whole story of your illness - Learning test risks and evaluating whether they're worth it - How to get a working diagnosis at the end of every doctor's visit By empowering patients to engage with their doctors as partners in their diagnosis, When Doctors Don't Listen is an essential guide that enables patients to speak up and take back control of their health care.

Every Patient Tells a Story Book
Score: 4
From 10 Ratings

Every Patient Tells a Story

  • Author : Lisa Sanders
  • Publisher : Harmony
  • File Size : 14,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2010-09-21
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 306
  • ISBN 10 : 9780767922470
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A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, ‘What is wrong with me?’ They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it—on some level—restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer." A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory—making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment—only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU—bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent—and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every

Inside the Mind of a Physician Book

Inside the Mind of a Physician

  • Author : Herdley Paolini
  • Publisher : Florida Hospital Publishing
  • File Size : 16,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2010-02-23
  • Genre: Health
  • Pages : 61
  • ISBN 10 : 9780982040904
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Are physicians a mystery? To many of us, yes. Physicians perform one of the most valuable personal services in the world. They care for our bodies in the most intimate of ways. We place our lives in their hands and trust they have our best interest at heart. But how much do we really know of physicians and their inner world? Relatively little. The environment for practicing medicine has changed dramatically over the past few decades. The commoditizing of physicians and their work frequently causes a dehumanization of the doctor and the doctor/patient relationship not to mention the connections between physicians and other staff. Due to the training, practice culture, constraints, liabilities, and pressures placed on physicians today, they often cannot practice the kind of personalized, relationship-enhancing medicine that would benefit both patient and caregiver. In this monograph Dr. Herdley Paolini does a great service by opening the inner world of physicians and helping us understand them, how to relate to them, and how to best support them in their critical role in healthcare. Her insights will be of great value to everyone from hospital administrators and clinical staff, to insurance providers, government agencies, and anyone who interacts with physicians. The Florida Hospital Healthcare & Leadership Monograph Series is an innovative teaching and learning tool from the largest admitting hospital in America. Monographs in this series provide focused, relevant training to individuals and organizations on a wide variety of healthcare and leadership topics.Ideal for healthcare professionals, leadership innovators, researchers, teachers, students, and other pioneering professionals each volume provides the latest information and break-through thinking on the subject in a clear, concise, readable form.

Second Opinions Book
Score: 5
From 3 Ratings

Second Opinions

  • Author : Jerome E. Groopman
  • Publisher : Penguin Paperbacks
  • File Size : 9,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2001-03-01
  • Genre: Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 243
  • ISBN 10 : 0140298622
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Explores the art and science of the decision-making process amid the complexities of contemporary medicine and describes how such factors as the realities of medical politics and patient intuition play a key role in critical medical decisions. Reprint.

Medical Investigation 101 Book

Medical Investigation 101

  • Author : Dr. Russ Hill
  • Publisher : Hill and Griffith
  • File Size : 8,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-02-17
  • Genre: Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 259
  • ISBN 10 : 9781736768143
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Medical Investigation 101 invites you to try out a career in medical science. Learn about medical specialties and the wide array of healthcare team careers. Try your hand at solving the sort of medical mysteries doctors confront each day. Learn some basic medical terminology and discover how doctors analyze and solve medical puzzles. Play the role of the physician as you read the realistic case histories and learn about the applicable physiology and pathophysiology. These medical investigations stress a methodical way of thinking applicable to a wide array of decision making in life. Finally, we introduce current concepts in gene editing and medical therapy that promise the emergency of new frontiers in health science careers for today’s students. Together, Drs. Hill and Griffith share over fifty years of medical and teaching experience. Our students have endorsed the experience with remarkable enthusiasm. Whether you are searching for a career or simply wanting to better understand how doctors think, we hope you enjoy your adventure into the world of medicine.

Hippocrates Shadow Book
Score: 3
From 2 Ratings

Hippocrates Shadow

  • Author : David H. Newman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • File Size : 10,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2009-09-15
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 274
  • ISBN 10 : 9781416551546
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"Aclear-sighted, heartfelt, and humane story of the needless tests and treatments that cripple healthcare....as a guide to good medicine, it may help us get back to the essence of what good doctors do: be with patients in healing." —Samuel Shem, M.D., author of The House of God and The Spirit of the Place In Hippocrates’ Shadow, Dr. David H. Newman upends our understanding of the doctor-patient relationship and offers a new paradigm of honesty and communication. He sees a disregard for the healing power of the bond that originated with Hippocrates, and, ultimately, a disconnect between doctors and their oath to"do no harm." Exposing the patterns of secrecy and habit in modern medicine’s carefully protected subculture, Dr. Newman argues that doctors and patients cling to tradition and yield to demands for pills or tests. Citing fascinating studies that show why antibiotics for sore throats are almost always unnecessary; how cough syrup is rarely more effective than a sugar pill; and why CPR is violent, invasive—and almost always futile, this thought-provoking book cuts to the heart of what really works, and what doesn’t, in medicine.

When We Do Harm Book
Score: 5
From 1 Ratings

When We Do Harm

  • Author : Danielle Ofri, MD
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • File Size : 18,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-03-23
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 274
  • ISBN 10 : 9780807037881
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Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety. Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there’s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is—and always will be—imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.