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Original Essays | November 5, 2009

John Buntin: IMG Notes from the (Bibliographic) Underground

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Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine

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A physician and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine explores how doctors and patients make critical decisions, offering eight clinical dramas that give insight into social and economic forces at work in the world of medicine, motives of caregivers, and the hope and limits of new treatments. The author teaches medicine at Harvard Medical School and is a leading researcher in cancer and AIDS.
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Groopman, Jerome
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Health Care Delivery
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Medicine
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Health Care Issues
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Medicine, popular
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General science
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6599
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20000228
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