The Digital Doctor By Robert Wachter

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Title	:	The Digital Doctor
Author	:	Robert Wachter
ISBN	:	0071849467
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	352

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While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare s ills.But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization until now Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal inc While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibl...

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How Doctors Think By Jerome Groopman

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Title	:	How Doctors Think
Author	:	Jerome Groopman
ISBN	:	0618610030
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	320

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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong with catastrophic consequences In this myth shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces a On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds In that short time, many doctors decide on ...

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The House of God By Samuel Shem

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Title	:	The House of God
Author	:	Samuel Shem
ISBN	:	0385337388
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	416

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The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know Six eager interns they saw themselves as modern saviors to be They came from the top of their medical school classto the bottom of the hospital staff to serve ayear in the time honored tradition, racing to answerthe flash of on duty call lights and nubilenurses But onl The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know Six eager interns they saw themselves ...

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Complications By Atul Gawande

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Title	:	Complications
Author	:	Atul Gawande
ISBN	:	0312421702
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	270

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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel s edge Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction....

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The Paradoxical Brain By Narinder Kapur

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Title	:	The Paradoxical Brain
Author	:	Narinder Kapur
ISBN	:	0521115574
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	466

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The Paradoxical Brain focuses on the phenomenon whereby damage to the brain can actually result in enhancement of function, questioning the traditional belief that lesions or other negative effects on the brain will result in loss of function The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss

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The Checklist Manifesto By Atul Gawande

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Title	:	The Checklist Manifesto
Author	:	Atul Gawande
ISBN	:	0312430000
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	215

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A New York Times BestsellerIn latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.The modern world has given us stupendous know how Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry in almost every realm of organized activity A New York Times BestsellerIn latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about t...

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