Making choices about your medical care can be difficult for so many different reasons including, of course, the stress placed on you by being sick in the first place. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband go through many options to help people clearly evaluate their options and deal with their deeply rooted beliefs about their health, the healthcare system, doctors, etc. I think the book does a good job with this subject but I have to say that Groopman's earlier book How Doctor's Think was a book I think literally EVERYONE should read. This book is very good but doesn't reach the level of mandatory reading. I did enjoy the personal viewpoints of the authors...one aggressively pursuing medical treatment and the other much more oriented to "wait and see". I can certainly see the advantage of having a doctor with an approach similar to your personal beliefs and maybe in a medical crisis getting a second opinion from a doctor with a different viewpoint.
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