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How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman
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  • Mar 19, 2007, 320 pages
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  • Mar 2008, 336 pages
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Jerome Groopman, M.D., holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has published more than 150 scientific articles. He is also a staff writer at The New Yorker and has written editorials on policy issues for the New Republic, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Full bio.

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Dr Groopman has written many articles for The New Yorker, some of which are reprinted in How Doctors Think.

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