New York Observer
Monday, March 19, 2007The New York Observer also had some interesting comments on the book. Here’s an excerpt and their website has more.
"'When and why does thinking go right or go wrong in medicine?' he asks. The answer is important, according to Dr. Groopman, because the majority of medical mistakes come from 'flaws in physician thinking'—not technical errors, as many people assume. And while new med-school teaching trends are meant to improve the problem, to train students to streamline how they diagnose disease (think complex algorithms and decision trees), Dr. Groopman worries that they could have the opposite effect: The next generation of doctors may 'function like a well-programmed computer' that can’t process ambiguity and uncertainty."
