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...tend to be influenced by the last experience we had or something that made a deep impression on us," Groopman says. So if it's January, your doctor has just seen 14 patients with the flu and you show up with muscle aches and a fever, he or she is more likely to say you have the flu--which is fine unless it's really meningitis or a reaction to a tetanus shot that you forgot to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Doctors Go Wrong | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...best defense--besides giving as complete a history as you can--is to be alert and ready to ask questions anytime a doctor says, "There's a lot of this going around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Doctors Go Wrong | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...just do something. Stand there," one of Groopman's mentors told him years ago when he was uncertain of a diagnosis. This buys a doctor time to think--which is especially important when trying to ensure that something hasn't been overlooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Doctors Go Wrong | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Groopman cautions that emotions are more of an issue than most physicians like to admit. Doctors who are particularly fond of a patient have been known to miss the diagnosis of a life-threatening cancer because they just didn't want it to be true. But negative emotions can be just as blinding, sometimes stopping a doctor from going the extra mile. "If you sense that your doctor is irritated with you, that he or she doesn't like you," says Groopman, "then it's time to get a new doctor." Studies show that most patients are pretty accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Doctors Go Wrong | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Groopman's book makes abundantly clear that despite all the electronic databases that are being used to improve health care, a lot of medicine still comes down to a doctor or two puzzling out what might be wrong with your body. Experience, common assumptions and human nature can guide them or lead them astray. By asking a few questions--especially if you think your doctor isn't asking enough of them--you can raise the odds that your physician won't get detoured from the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Doctors Go Wrong | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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