JEROME GROOPMAN

An entirely new way to make the best medical decisions.Making the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sideswhether our doctors recommendations, dissenting experts, confusing statistics, or testimonials on the Internet. Now Doctors Groopman and Hartzband reveal that each of us has a medical mind, a highly individual approach to weighing the risks and benefits of treatments. Are you a minimalist or a maximalist, a believer or a doubter, do you look for natural healing or the latest technology? The authors weave vivid narratives of real patients with insights from recent research to demonstrate the power of the medical mind. After reading this groundbreaking book, you will know how to arrive at choices that serve you best.

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the worlds leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical decision-making, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.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 wrongwith catastrophic consequences. In this revolutionary book, Dr. Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make, offering direct, intelligent questions for patient advocacy to help them get back on track. Drawing on extensive interviews with some of the countrys best doctors and Groopmans own experiences as a doctor and as a patient, How Doctors Think reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical practice, improving doctor-patient communication and giving doctors and patients a way to make better judgments together.This revolutionary book reveals the hidden psychology of medicine and gives you the tools to:Cognitive Errors in Medicine: Learn to recognize the hidden biases, cognitive traps, and thought processes that can lead to misdiagnosis, drawn from candid interviews with the nations top physicians. A Patient Advocacy Toolkit: Discover the direct, intelligent questions you can ask to improve communication, partner with your doctor, and ensure you get the best care. The Psychology of Medical Judgment: Understand why a physician interrupts a patient within eighteen seconds and how those snap judgments, while often correct, can sometimes have catastrophic consequences. Firsthand Medical Insights: Go behind the scenes with Dr. Groopmans own experiences as both a doctor and a patient, revealing a clear path for making better, more informed judgments together.

An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctors discovery of how hope can changethe course of illnessSince the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.The search for hope is most urgent at the patients bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope--or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of illness.Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hopes reach," Groopman writes, "and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of healing."

An entirely new way to make the best medical decisions.Making the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sideswhether our doctors recommendations, dissenting experts, confusing statistics, or testimonials on the Internet. Now Doctors Groopman and Hartzband reveal that each of us has a medical mind, a highly individual approach to weighing the risks and benefits of treatments. Are you a minimalist or a maximalist, a believer or a doubter, do you look for natural healing or the latest technology? The authors weave vivid narratives of real patients with insights from recent research to demonstrate the power of the medical mind. After reading this groundbreaking book, you will know how to arrive at choices that serve you best.

De media, un medico interrumpirá a un paciente que le describe sus síntomas a los 18 segundos. En ese breve tiempo, muchos medicos deciden el diagnóstico más probable y el mejor tratamiento. A menudo, las decisiones que se toman asi son correctas, pero en momentos cruciales pueden ser erroneas y tener consecuencias catastroficas. En este libro que rompe mitos, Jerome Groopman señala las fuerzas y los procesos de pensamiento que se encuentran detras de las decisiones que toman los medicos. Groopman explora por que se equivocan los medicos y muestra cuando y como pueden evitar con nuestra ayuda precipitarse a emitir juicios, como asumir la incertidumbre, comunicarse con eficacia y desplegar otras habilidades que pueden impactar enormemente en nuestra salud. Este libro es el primero en describir con detalle las señales de advertencia del pensamiento medico erroneo y en revelar como las nuevas tecnologias pueden obstaculizar un diagnostico correcto. Como piensan los medicos ofrece preguntas directas e inteligentes que los pacientes pueden plantear a sus medicos para hacerlos volver al camino correcto. Groopman ha realizado muchas investigaciones y extensas entrevistas con algunos de los mejores medicos del pais, ademas de aprovechar su propia experiencia como medico y como pacien