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Jerome Groopman, M.D., holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of How Doctors Think, The Anatomy of Hope, Second Opinions, The Measure of Our Days, and other books.

A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments—-or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.

The New York Times Sunday Book Review - Michael Crichton

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 … Here is Groopman at the peak of his form, as a physician and as a writer. Readers will relish the result.

Introduction     1
Flesh-and-Blood Decision-Making     27
Lessons from the Heart     41
Spinning Plates     59
Gatekeepers     77
A New Mother's Challenge     101
The Uncertainty of the Expert     132
Surgery and Satisfaction     156
The Eye of the Beholder     177
Marketing, Money, and Medical Decisions     203
In Service of the Soul     234
Epilogue: A Patient's Questions     260
Afterword     271
Acknowledgments     283
Notes     286
Index     304