How Doctors Think and the real world

Can Dr. Groopman’s theories apply to the real world? Ron Sen suggests not:

Call this self-serving if you like, but most introspective physicians wallow in a sea of uncertainty as a weighty part of our professional lives, just as much as you traders do, but with different consequences. I would tell Dr. Groopman that he might know something about how physicians think, but he might also just be pounding many square pegs into his round holes. And I’m not sure that I need any more pounding on the average day.

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