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...recent afternoon, Groopman discussed his book in the Freshman Seminar Office, where he teaches his class. During the interview, Groopman lay down to rest his injured back, a reminder that the doctor himself has experienced life from the other side of the stethoscope...
...book, Groopman doesn’t shy away from his own experiences, devoting a chapter to his protracted search for an explanation of his debilitating hand pain. Groopman chronicles his circuitous journey from doctor to doctor, including a year spent seeing one physician, who he claims fabricated a diagnosis...
...That’s what made him want to sort of demystify the thinking process of doctors for patients,” says Aviva J. Gilbert ’07, a former seminar student who still communicates regularly with Groopman. “If you can, as a patient as educated as he is, get such a variety of opinions, what you really want to know is how did they come up with those opinions...
...During the Slate.com debate, Groopman and Sanghavi found themselves at odds over the best way to teach diagnosis...
...Groopman insists that doctors need to learn more about avoiding cognitive traps, and not simply rely on systematic changes, such as computerizing prescriptions or installing hand sanitizer dispensers...