“Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care.” —Time
“A unique, important, and wonderful book . . . You’ll never look at your own doctor in the same way again.” — Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors of Freakonomics
“[Groopman’s] task is to offer practical advice to both patients and physicians.
He succeeds at both.” — Washington Post Book World
“Elegant, tough-minded ... deeply affecting ... remarkable. Here is Groopman at the peak
of his form, as a physician and as a writer. Readers will relish the result.”
— Michael Crichton, New York Times Book Review
“Well worth reading both for intellectual pleasure and as a guide to communicating with people you entrust your life to.”— Newsweek
“Superbly written ... single-minded in its exploration of ‘what goes on in a doctor’s mind as he or she treats a patient’.”— Entertainment Weekly
“A sage, humane prescription for medical practitioners and the people who depend on them.”— O’ the Oprah Magazine
“A fascinating exploration of the subconscious forces that influence how doctors approach illness.”— San Francisco Chronicle
“A mixture of methodological theorizing, personal history, and entertaining stories of misdiagnoses and miraculous saves.”— New York
“Enlightening and invaluable.”— Wall Street Journal
“Provides a rare window into the doctor’s exam room and passes along lessons valuable to all patients.”— Business Week
“This is medicine at its best, ‘a mix of science and soul’.”— New York Times
“Laced with compelling anecdotes — including some of Groopman’s own painful trials and errors — the book considers what can be done to promote, at the very least, better communication between patient and physician.”— Elle
“Offers patients some insight into the general shapes and contours of how doctors make life-enhancing or life-threatening decisions.”— Boston Globe
“It could easily be used as a study guide for medical residents and fellows to teach pitfalls in cognitive and communication skills or as entertaining educational material to improve one’s diagnostic acumen. Either way, it is a joy to read.”
— Journal of the American Medical Association
“Engaging and accessible to the lay reader but also thoroughly credible and interesting to a professional audience . . . a tale of our emerging understanding of the pathways to more effective diagnostic reasoning and critical care.”
— New England Journal of Medicine
“Groopman draws very clear and precise conclusions from his review of the surprising array of cognitive dangers that face doctors . . . [his] investigation into how doctors think has important potential to recalibrate the way medicine looks at itself.”
— New York Review of Books
