Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sides: doctors' recommendations, dissenting expert opinions, statistics, the advice of friends, and a never-ending stream of drug company ads.
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Monday on Up to Date, Steve Kraske welcomes Dr. Jerome Groopman, a New Yorker writer and author of the New York Times bestseller How Doctors Think, and his co-writer, wife and colleague at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Pamela Hartzband, to reveal the array of forces that can aid or impede our decision making. Their new book is Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right For You
HEAR MORE: Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr. Pamela Hartzband are the keynote speakers at Monday evening's Center for Practical Bioethics 18th annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. and is preceded by a 6 p.m. reception and takes place at the St. Joseph Medical Center Alex George Auditorium, Building D. Click for more details.
Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, are on the staff of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. They have collaborated on articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New England Journal of Medicine, among other publications. Groopman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller How Doctors Think.
