Newsweek
Monday, April 16, 2007"In his long career, Groopman, whose research interests range from hematology and oncology to AIDS, has made his share of mistakes, and clearly learned from them. The number of ways in which a doctor can screw up make for uncomfortable reading: 'satisfaction of search,' the tendency to stop considering alternative explanations once you arrive at a plausible hypothesis; 'diagnosis momentum,' the unconscious suppression of evidence that conflicts with an existing theory; 'commission bias,' the preference for action for its own sake. Groopman has particular disdain for snap judgments and intuitive leaps not supported by rigorous logic. One of his heroes is a radiologist named Dennis Orwig, whose insistence on methodically tracing every loop and twist of intestine in an X-ray led him to a difficult diagnosis of a potentially fatal bowel condition."
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