1. How Doctors Think

A "New Yorker" staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.

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.

2. How Doctors Think, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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How Doctors Think, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. Diversified Health Occupations: Health Science: Comprehensive, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

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Diversified Health Occupations: Health Science: Comprehensive, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

4. Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975, Used [Hardcover]

Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975 by Mary R. Walsh

Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975, Used [Hardcover]

5. White Coat Wisdom, Used [Hardcover]

They're smart. They're passionate. They're doctors. White Coat Wisdom is an unprecedented look at the medical profession, through the eyes of extraordinary physicians who talk about what they do, how they got there, and why medicine is so much more than a job. You will discover: * inside knowledge about disease prevention * the secrets of total career satisfaction * the ability to achieve success, no matter how daunting the challenge * why service to others transforms work into a calling. White Coat Wisdom reveals how physicians from various specialties and locations developed their resolve, found their medical passion, and learned--and continue to learn--on their journey. Real doctors, real stories. Finalist, Health, The USA "Best Books 2011" Award

White Coat Wisdom, Used [Hardcover]

6. Contract Issues for Emergency Physicians, Used [Paperback]

Invaluable for any emergency physician entering into an employment or independent contract agreement to provide medical services on behalf of a hospital or group. What you don't know really can hurt you

Contract Issues for Emergency Physicians, Used [Paperback]

7. Octavia Wilberforce: The Autobiography of a Pioneer Woman Doctor, Used [Hardcover]

Octavia Wilberforce: The Autobiography of a Pioneer Woman Doctor by Octavia Wilberforce

Octavia Wilberforce: The Autobiography of a Pioneer Woman Doctor, Used [Hardcover]

8. Life Of Florence Sabin (Pioneers in Health and Medicine) [Library Binding - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A biography of the physician who made significant contributions to the field of medicine as a researcher, professor, and public health advocate and who became the first woman ever to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Life Of Florence Sabin (Pioneers in Health and Medicine), Used [Library Binding]

9. The Man with the Iron Tattoo and Other True Tales of Uncommon Wisdom : What Our Patients Have Taught Us about Love, Faith, and Healing, Used [Paperback]

Viewing?13 medical cases through the eyes of two physicians during their internships and throughout their careers,?this examination of Western medicine argues?that?doctors need to learn to deal?more effectively and sensitively with medical and non-medical patient needs.?Particular attention is paid?to the knowledge doctors can gain from listening to their patients, and how that wisdom can be applied to help that patient?as well as?others.?Anecdotes illustrate the wisdom of asking for help from colleagues, the role that?intuition can play, and the positive power of hope. ? "The doctor is seized by fear and runs as fast as he can from his hospital office to the MRI suite a few hundreds yards away. If he doesn't get there in time and stop the imaging test, his tattooed patient will likely die-and his fine medical reputation will be in jeopardy." That's only one true story in this riveting book about the lessons two accomplished doctors learned from their patients. Life lessons. Life and death lessons. Lessons they never learned in medical school.

The Man with the Iron Tattoo and Other True Tales of Uncommon Wisdom : What Our Patients Have Taught Us about Love, Faith, and Healing, Used [Paperback]

10. Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated -- the first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient. Ginny Elkin was a troubled young and talented writer whom the psychiatric world had labeled as "schizoid." After trying a variety of therapies, she entered into private treatment with Dr. Irvin Yalom at Stanford University. As part of their work together, they agreed to write separate journals of each of their sessions. Every Day Gets a Little Closer is the product of that arrangement, in which they alternately relate their descriptions and feelings about their therapeutic relationship.

Every Day Gets a Little Closer : A Twice-Told Therapy, Used [Paperback]