From the Bookshelf

Medical orthodoxy has for more than a century distanced itself from quackery by reference to its evidence, logic, and obeisance to professional standards, yet our actual performance has partaken of a good deal more than these, as well as sometimes less. How do physicians meld the welter of particulars in each patient’s situation into an actionable diagnosis?

The answer Dr. Jerome Groopman offers [in How Doctors Think] is that it is a very complex process with many pitfalls. He has the temerity to try to explain our variable processes, including our failures, not only to physicians, but to nonphysicians as well. He largely succeeds.

Read more of Dr. Terrell's book review here.