Word: groopmans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even in the midst of taping interviews with “The Early Show” and NPR, Groopman, the Recanati professor of medicine, still finds time to engage with undergraduates in his weekly freshman seminar, “Insights from Narratives of Illness...
...realized I didn’t know why or how I thought successfully, and why and how there were times when I didn’t think well,” Groopman says. ”That was the genesis of the book...
...It’s tempting to think of [medical care] as something that’s just doctors sitting around and thinking,” says Darshak M. Sanghavi ’92, another physician author who earlier crossed swords with Groopman in an online debate on Slate.com. “But I think we need to be a little more creative than focusing primarily on the thinking of doctors...
...with a white beard reminiscent of Socrates’, Jerome E. Groopman certainly looks the part of the wise old doctor. TV show host Stephen Colbert once even accused him of “trying to look like...
...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...