Patients and their loved ones can be true partners with physicians when they know how doctors think, and why doctors sometimes fail to think. The epilogue offers words that patients, their families, and their friends can use to help a physician or surgeon think, and thereby better help themselves. He writes: “At the end of this journey through the minds of doctors, we return to language. He writes that patients can help doctors in finding the answers to their medical problems. In the introduction to his book, Groopman talks about how there was little research on how doctors think, but he often thought about the topic. He is also a writer for The New Yorker magazine. How Doctors Think is a 2007 work of nonfiction by Jerome Groopman, chair of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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