![]() It was not exactly easy reading, and it made me think hard about how I practice medicine, and made me second guess a lot of things I did while I was reading it, as well as since I read it. It’s all about errors in cognition, and the mindsets we all get into about misreading patients, focusing too much on one set of diagnostic results over another, and things like that. How Doctors Think was similar to Being Mortal in the sense that both are about how doctors and patients can do better at their jobs, but How Doctors Think honed in on the specifics of how doctors can screw up sometimes, and not because of how you’d think they would. ![]() ![]() all of the veterinarians in our practice, needs to read this one. ![]() This book, like Being Mortal, was handed to me by my boss Cathy, and told I had to read it sooner than I read most of the other books she gives me (as everyone here knows, I’ve been averaging about four years between her giving me a book and me actually getting around to reading it lately), because EVERYONE, i.e. is a writer for The New Yorker (and has published several full-length books) as well as an oncologist. ![]() That’s fine with me, actually, because it was going nowhere fast, and I’m hoping I can do a better job this time. I started a post on this book about a week ago and it seems to have vanished off my hard drive. ![]()
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