How Doctors Think NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by Jerome E. Groopman: A Compelling Meditation on Doctors and Patients

Klass.* Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookmarks Magazine Jerome Groopman, Harvard professor of medicine, AIDS and cancer researcher, and *New Yorker* staff writer in medicine and biology, isn't new to the popular medical-writing scene. Before *How Doctors Think*, he penned three other books—*The Anatomy of Hope*, *Second Opinions*, and *The Measure of Our Days*—that explore the role of art in the hard science of medicine. Here, Groopman's readable prose emphasizes the human element, the give-and-take so important to successful diagnosis and treatment. One critic, however, compares the book's medical pyrotechnics to an episode of the medical show *House*, while another takes issue with the author's stance against Big Pharma. For the most part, critics see Groopman's latest effort as a compelling meditation on the interactions between doctors and patients—an effort reminding us that mistakes and miscommunications can be minimized but not eliminated.