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...guidelines for knowing when you need a second opinion or how you should go about getting one. But the best primer I've seen on the subject is a new book called Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School (Viking, $24.95), due in bookstores this month. Second Opinions is not so much a how-to guide as an insider's view of how doctors and patients determine--often with limited facts--the best course of treatment. "Dealing with uncertainty is difficult for everyone, including doctors," Groopman...
...feel you have no other options, that's precisely when you need a sober assessment of all the risks and benefits. Be especially sure to get a second opinion if you're told you need an experimental treatment. "Researchers tend to fall in love with what they're doing," Groopman notes...
...machines are available that convert the printed pages of books, magazines and newspapers into speech through technology that scans the printed text. This is an absolute blessing and eases the burden of sight loss, affording blind people the opportunity to enjoy topical printed material without additional human assistance. CYNTHIA GROOPMAN New York City...
...Though Groopman has treated patients with fatal illnesses for 27 years, he said the experience has not numbed him. Rather, he said, it has been tiring and emotionally draining...
...Groopman said he is especially invigorated by the work he does in an experimental research lab, which he also runs. The promise of science, he said, gives him the hope that the life-threatening illnesses he witnesses everyday will at some point be curable...