NPR Interview
Wednesday, April 18, 2007Visit the KQED site to listen to a particularly intelligent and lively interview with Michael Krasny out in San Francisco.
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."
Read the full Newsweek article here.
New York Times Book Review
Monday, April 2, 2007"This elegant, tough-minded book recounts stories about how doctors and patients interact with one other. In the hands of Jerome Groopman, professor of medicine at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, these clinical episodes make absorbing reading and are often deeply affecting. At the same time, the author is commenting on some of the most profound problems facing modern medicine." -Michael Crichton
The rest of the article is located at the New York Times website.
Parade Magazine
Sunday, April 1, 2007Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of the new book How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin), says one key to avoid medical mistakes is for patients to become their doctor’s partner and to ask the questions that will help their doctor think better.
To read the full article, visit the Parade.com.
