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How doctors think

record updated July 14 2010

item type

a chapter in a book

author

Jerome Groopman

chapter

Marketing, Money, and Medical Decisions

publisher

Houghton Mifflin

year

2007

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PainSci notes

Groopman, writing from personal experience with chronic back pain and a spinal fusion surgery, discusses back pain as intelligently as any medical expert I’ve come across, but he does so in a way that will fascinate patients. In this chapter, his discussion of back pain is placed in the context of how medical thinking is influenced by marketing and money, giving us a somewhat chilling insiders’ view of the surgical treatment of back pain.

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