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By Jerome Groopman. 243 pp. New York, Viking, 2000. $24.95. ISBN 0-670-88801-X.

Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine, Jerome Groopman's second collection of clinical stories, illuminates the mysteries and uncertainties of serious illness and the fears it evokes in both patients and doctors. Writing for a wide audience in clear and precise, nontechnical language, Groopman offers these stories to deepen and enlarge the experiences of patients and doctors in a health care system that seems to have lost sight of its mission. More specifically, his angle of vision comes from a whirlpool of conflicting diagnoses and human error, the bureaucracies of clinical trials and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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