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How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman

How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman X
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

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    Mar 2007, 320 pages
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    Mar 2008, 336 pages

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* I quickly realized that trying to assess how psychiatrists think was beyond my abilities. Therapy of mental illness is a huge field unto itself that encompasses various schools of thought and theories of mind. For that reason, I do not delve into psychiatry in this book.

Copyright © 2007 by Jerome Groopman. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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