**A groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical
practice, 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
wrong--with catastrophic consequences. In this revolutionary book,
Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the
decisions doctors make, offering direct, intelligent questions patients
can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Drawing on
extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors and
Groopman's own experiences as a doctor and as a patient, How Doctors
Think reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical
practice, giving doctors and patients a way to make better judgments
together.