The stories, although slightly melodramatic at times with their predictable climax followed by a happily-ever-after resolution, do provide an accurate and helpful glimpse of the complex infrastructures of health care to those unfamiliar with the field. The author then further expands upon the subject in an essay form by weaving into the storytelling opinions from experts of cognitive thinking in medicine as well as evidence from recent research work on the topic. Most chapters open with the story of an individual patient and his doctor, whose interactions introduce us to an aspect of problem-solving in medicine. Groopman, a haematologist affiliated with Harvard Medical School, takes the readers on a tour of a wide range of medical fields while jumping swiftly back-and-forth between the physician and the patient’s perspective. In his latest book, How Doctors Think, Dr.
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