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This book offers advice on making medical decisions inspite of confusing and conflicting information, provides insight into the personal beliefs influencing how choices are made while citing the marketing practices that complicate the process. Making theright medical choices is harder than ever. Whether deciding on a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors' recommendations, dissenting expert opinions, confusing statistics, conflicting media reports, the advice of friends, claims on the Internet, and a never-ending stream of drug company ads. This book shows us how to chart a clear path through this sea of confusion. Both doctor, the authors reveal that each of us has a set of deeply rooted beliefs whose profound influence we may not realize when we make medical decisions. Recognizing our preferences and the external factors that might lead our thinking astray can make a dramatic, even lifesaving, difference in our medical decision making. The authors drew on research and insights from patients, doctors, psychologists, economists, and other experts to help reveal the array of forces that can aid or impede our thinking. Ultinately, this is a chronicle of how ordinary people, landing ata medical crossroads, must decide about care, who should provide it, and for how long. -- From publisher description.

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You ll close the book with an entirely new attitude and set of tools for making medical decisions Groopman and Hartzband s important book will help doctor and patient learn how each of us navigates our own tolerance for risk, thus improving outcomes on both sides of the examination table. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Daniel J. Levitin) Your Medical Mind is a welcome and overdue comprehensive exploration of the patient s perspective as he or she navigates the dizzying array of choices modern medicine presents. BOSTON GLOBE Part psychological study and part self-help book, Your Medical Mind doesn't provide answers but, rather, insights into navigating the increasingly daunting and dysfunctional world of medicine. NPR.org A welcome guide for those who are daunted by the choices they face, ranging from taking a cholesterol-lowering drug to making end-of-life decisions for a loved one. WALL STREET JOURNAL This important and riveting book could change and perhaps even save your life. Daniel Gilbert, author of STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS Bringing the deep sensitivity and outstanding clinical skill that characterize all of his writings, Jerome Groopman has joined forces with Pamela Hartzband to bring us a message ofwisdom andfar-ranging importance. The complexities that face any patient in making personal medical decisions are here described, analyzed and clarified by two master physicians, who guide us with empathy, sincere caring and wide experience. Sherwin Nuland, author of HOW WE DIE

You ll close the book with an entirely new attitude and set of tools for making medical decisions Groopman and Hartzband s important book will help doctor and patient learn how each of us navigates our own tolerance for risk, thus improving outcomes on both sides of the examination table. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Daniel J. Levitin) Your Medical Mind is a welcome and overdue comprehensive exploration of the patient s perspective as he or she navigates the dizzying array of choices modern medicine presents. BOSTON GLOBE Part psychological study and part self-help book, Your Medical Mind doesn't provide answers but, rather, insights into navigating the increasingly daunting and dysfunctional world of medicine. NPR.org A welcome guide for those who are daunted by the choices they face, ranging from taking a cholesterol-lowering drug to making end-of-life decisions for a loved one. WALL STREET JOURNAL This important and riveting book could change and perhaps even save your life. Daniel Gilbert, author of STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS Bringing the deep sensitivity and outstanding clinical skill that characterize all of his writings, Jerome Groopman has joined forces with Pamela Hartzband to bring us a message ofwisdom andfar-ranging importance. The complexities that face any patient in making personal medical decisions are here described, analyzed and clarified by two master physicians, who guide us with empathy, sincere caring and wide experience. Sherwin Nuland, author of HOW WE DIE

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Jerome Groopman, M.D. is the Recanati Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He and his work have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time magazine, as well as in numerous scientific journals. He lives with his family in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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