An astute physician, beginning with careful elicitation of the patient’s story, was able to set aside those prior diagnoses to discover that she in fact had celiac disease. The book begins with a description of a woman with abdominal symptoms who for years was diagnosed with a series of functional and mental disorders, including bulimia. In the first few sections, Groopman explores how, when, and why diagnoses are missed by some physicians and captured by others. Although intended for the general public, the book offers clinicians an irresistible promise of self-understanding, and in many ways succeeds. In a style familiar to readers of his New Yorker articles, Groopman uses detailed case studies of exemplary physicians to make clear, logical, and compelling arguments. The explicit purpose of How doctors think is to give laypeople an understanding of the medical mind so that they can participate more actively in clinical conversations and improve the care that they receive. In this very engaging and well-researched book, Jerome Groopman, a practicing oncologist with expertise in AIDS-related malignancies, explores the interior landscape of the physician’s mind.
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