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...things. It's a lot like what tells a good cook the roast is ready, or a good teacher that the kid nodding in back doesn't really understand. Clinical judgment often makes a doctor do things the "objective tests" do not support. Trusting what you see in the patient more than what you find in the chart is a common exercise of medical judgment. You see it used by the doctor starting antibiotics on a sick child with a negative culture, transfusing a patient whose blood count isn't that low (yet) or putting a cast on when...
...nearly 10 minutes had passed—by that point the Bulldogs already had three of their four first-quarter goals. Yale took nine shots to the Crimson’s two in that frame.For a team that prides itself on its ability to handle the ball and be patient, the most surprising aspect of the game was Harvard’s lack of control. The Crimson could not seem to hold onto the ball even when the closest defender was five yards away. Open passes were routinely overthrown, as many of the miscues came from simple inaccuracy. Harvard piled...
...former student remembered hearing Groopman’s stories of patient frustration...
...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...
...published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study revealed that most physicians received drug samples or small gifts, such as pens or mugs, over a third were reimbursed for costs at professional or educational meetings, and over a quarter were paid for consulting, lecturing, or enrolling patients in trials. Although pharmaceutical companies may influence doctor’s prescription decisions, this is not necessarily a bad thing, said lead researcher Eric G. Campbell, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “People immediately assume that the effect is bad,” Campbell...