New York Sun
Friday, March 30, 2007"Dr. Groopman, a staff writer for the New Yorker and a professor of medicine at Harvard, focuses on the different ways a doctor can go wrong. He tells heroic stories of laser-sharp diagnoses, but the errors in practice engage him more. In an absorbing chapter on cancer treatments, Dr. Groopman describes cases in which oncologists cleave closely to data on chemotherapy and refuse to customize care for individual patients. But he also cites doctors who believe any full assessment of a patient must factor in the individual's personality, goals, and history. While Dr. Groopman acknowledges that diverging from standard treatments can lead to unnecessary suffering, he also believes closing down those avenues deprives patients of real options and shows doctors to be overly anxious about failure."
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