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Ithaca College - FALL 2012 | ||
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How Doctors Think (Reprint Edition) by Jerome E. Groopman, James Groopman Paperback, 319 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-547-05364-9 / 0547053649 ISBN-13: 978-0-547-05364-6 / 9780547053646 On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequ |