tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51463210781065984512007-05-17T16:55:41.670-04:00Jerome GroopmanBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146321078106598451.post-86233543795044669902007-05-17T16:49:00.000-04:002007-05-17T16:55:41.700-04:00

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Visit the PBS News Hour website to listen to my recent interview discussing misdiagnosis.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Visit the KQED site to listen to a particularly intelligent and lively interview with Michael Krasny out in San Francisco.

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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

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Saturday, March 31, 2007 The article is on the Wall Street Journal website.

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Sunday, April 1, 2007 Dr. 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.

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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

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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; '

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Excerpt from the interview: "So what can patients do with their own doctors? "There are three pillars of this. First, when the symptoms are not getting better, what else could it be? Could there be more than one thing going on? You need to ask this perfectly appropriate question to prompt revisiting the initial, anchored assumption, the working diagnosis.Second,

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Monday, March 26, 2007 "Groopman's writing style grabs the reader's attention by making his characters come alive on the page — so much so, in fact, that the reader truly cares about the medical dilemmas they are facing. He gives us more information about the patients than most books of this genre, so that we can follow the doctors' thinking and understand how their decisions are made. It is

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner had some great things to say about How Doctors Think on their blog as well as another thoughtful doctor book that has recently come out, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande. Here's an excerpt from the post. "So why do these doctors write so well, and so much better (to my mind, at least) than other

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Friday, March 23, 2007 "In his final chapter Dr. Groopman discusses two terminally ill cancer patients for whom radically different courses of treatment were recommended, based less on the medical facts than on the patients’ philosophy of life. Here his general impatience with numbers, technology and rigid conceptual schemes in medical decision-making comes to the fore, as he describes the

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 "Groopman not only wants doctors to do better, he also wants to understand what goes wrong when they make mistakes. Interweaving moving clinical anecdotes with the latest science, he argues that physicians have insufficiently scrutinized how they arrive at decisions. 'Experts studying misguided care,' he writes, 'have recently concluded that the majority of errors are due

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Dr. Groopman appeared on the Charlie Rose Show this week to talk about his new book and to share more of his insights into the medical mind. Click Here to watch his appearance. He comes on at about the 38:30 mark so you can fast forward to his segment if you wish.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 "Last week, the Evening News talked with Dr. Jerome Groopman about his new book, "How Doctors Think." Hundreds of viewers wrote in with insightful questions, and Dr. Groopman has responded to some below." Read the question and answer session here.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 "More than ever, doctors need their patients to guide them, to know what questions to ask and how to ask them, Groopman says. Understanding how doctors think and why they do what they do is the best way for patients to elicit good medical care." Read the full article here.

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Monday, March 19, 2007 The 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

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Sunday, March 18, 2007 There has also been some great coverage about the book at BusinessWeek. This review went in depth with some of the case studies in the book and found the patient advice found in the book to be very helpful. "Health-care horror stories such as Dodge's are the backbone of How Doctors Think, by Dr. Jerome Groopman, a practicing physician and a professor at Harvard Medical

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Friday, March 16, 2007 CBS has been giving How Doctors Think a lot of attention with both evening news and morning news segments. So his prescription for patients? He says, turn the tables and question your doctor. "A patient can say, 'What else could it be?' especially if it's not getting better. Or, 'Could two things be going on at the same time?'," Groopman recommends. He adds that you

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 "We as physicians tend to latch on to the initial information that we get from a patient. We are often working under time pressure and we tend to make snap judgments and use shortcuts in thinking so the first information we get, what we first hear, very strongly guides where our mind works and what conclusions we come to." (Dr. Groopman) Listen to the Full Interview!

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Monday, March 19, 2007 Click here to watch last night's interview about How Doctors Think on the Colbert Report.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007 TIME Magazine has a review of How Doctors Think. Have a look. "The result of Groopman's journey is How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin; 307 pages), an engagingly written book that is must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care. Groopman says patients can prompt broader, sharper and less prejudiced thinking

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Sunday, March 18, 2007 "All of us as physicians are fallible, and while it is unrealistic to imagine a perfect clinical world, it is imperative to reduce the frequency of misdiagnosis. I believe all health professionals should learn in-depth about why and how and when we make errors in thinking, and I also believe that if our patients and their families and friends know about the common

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Friday, March 16, 2007 People Magazine writes, "Understanding what goes on in that fallible white-coat’s head, says How Doctors Think author Jerome Groopman, M.D., can help you receive the best care."

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Friday, March 16, 2007 The Wall Street Journal had some great thought provoking questions of their own to tie into the book. "What kind of doctor do you want? A no-nonsense decision maker who tells you within minutes what's wrong and what you need to do to fix it? Or a caring communicator who listens at length, expresses his own doubts and outlines a variety of treatment options?"

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