As the first waves of baby boomers hit their sixties, the inexorable upward march in the nation’s median age is inexorably expanding the role of doctors in most people’s lives. Medical interactions also become more angst ridden, as thickening case files become signposts on the road to death. But doctors bring hope as well, for advances in medical technology now o (...)
August 17, 2007
Books
Not Well
How Doctors ThinkJerome GroopmanHoughton Mifflin, $26, 320 pp.
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