
There was a time he suffered from ligament laxity in his right hand, and he had issues with the surgeons in charge of his treatment. Jerome Groopman also shares some of his personal experiences as a doctor (an oncologist) and a patient. The book does not fail to point out that these failures and mistakes in medicine can be corrected by understanding properly how doctors think and how to make them think in a way that’s better.


The book highlights the fallibilities of medical doctors and how uncertain the career field itself is, even today. For nearly 15 years, doctors were miffed and unable to get the right diagnosis for what her ailment was, consequently unable to find the right treatment. In this book, a certain woman in her thirties suffered stomach cramps on a daily basis and drastically lost weight. How Doctors Think is about how sometimes in the medical profession doctors make mistakes, taking them off the pedestal a bit and making them a bit more human just like the rest of us. Making it to the top of our list of the best books for doctors is a book written by Dr.
