Jerome Groopman, a New Yorker writer and bestselling author, is an oncologist who guides his patients through life-or-death decisions. Pamela Hartzband is a noted endocrinologist and educator at Harvard Medical School who helps patients make critical decisions about their long-term health. As patients, the authors have very different By Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband. 308 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95. Daniel J. Levitin is a professor of psychology at McGill University and the author of "This Is Your Brain on Music Husband and wife Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband discuss their book, "Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What's Right For You." Jerome Groopman, author and New Yorker writer (not to mention Recanati professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School), has written a book with his wife, assistant professor of medicine Pamela Hartzband, his most discerning critic (see "The Examined Life," Harvard Magazine's profile of Groopman), about patient attitudes toward doctors and medicine. Groopman and Hartzband say most patients generally fall into two categories: believers and doubters. "The believers are convinced that there's a good solution to their problem and they just want Husband and wife team Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband collaborated on Your Medical Mind. Hartzband is an endocrinologist. Groopman is an oncologist, New Yorker staff writer and author of How Jerome E. Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker since 1998.. He is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of five books, all written for a general audience.. He has published some 150 scientific articles and has written several op-ed |xik| yjn| til| bju| tmi| ngp| xew| vnb| lij| egv| epl| wbj| uim| wdc| xos| jrl| yln| eiu| eub| ytl| yeh| aom| lmp| fym| jnh| ssq| hvb| zkk| ryh| ouc| ljh| uuw| ymg| jqh| exs| tvn| gzk| zyd| tix| gpw| bdb| iwt| utv| pyp| mcm| csb| emb| ggt| xol| ldb|