Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You, (Paperback)

from judithrs

Your Medical Mind; How to Decide What is Right for You. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband. 2011. A husband and wife team study the way people make decisions relating to their healthcare and their death, and the way doctors present the options for various treatments. Basically they find that pe...

from GlennBell

The author compiles a number of cases in which the patient is faced with a number of options for treatment of the disease or condition. The options are discussed and personal preferences are examined. Such concepts as minimal or maximum care, natural or high tech care, and quantity versus quality...

from bell7

Chances are, you don't fully grasp your own biases in making medical decisions. Drs. Groopman and Hartzband discuss psychological aspects of decision-making such as risk-aversion, framing statistics, and the availability of stories of others who have had the disease, using stories of patients to ...

from nyiper

Just terrific---makes you "start" thinking. I was listening to the audio version and really need to listen to it all again to make more of it stick in my head! Using actual patients to help emphasize the decisions one faces is what it is all about ---the subtitle "How to decide what's right for y...

from DHealy

Doesn't live up to its title