The Good Doctor: Why Medical Uncertainty Matters

✍ Scribed by Brigham, Kenneth L.;Johns, Michael M. E

• Book ID: 100551747
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Edition: A Seven Stories Press first edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1609809971

✦ Synopsis

"Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want to be the healthiest we can be. Counterintuitive as it may seem, uncertainty is integral to medicine, and you want a doctor who knows that: someone who sees you as the unique case you are, someone who knows that data isn't everything, someone who is able to change her mind as the information changes. For too long we've clung to the myth of the infallible doctor--one who assuredly tells us this is what's wrong and here is how I will cure you--and our health has suffered for it. Brigham and Johns propose a new model of medicine, one that is comfortable with ambiguity and that centers on an equal partnership between patient and doctor. Uncertainty, properly embraced, opens a new universe of possibilities"--;Some basics -- A few doctors' maladies to watch for ... and why -- Some things that your doctor should know ... and why they matter -- Some things to expect from your doctor -- Fears and hopes for the new medicine.

✦ Subjects

Medicine -- Decision making