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By Jerome Groopman. 307 pp. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2007. $26. ISBN 978-0-618-61003-7.

The public image of the ideal physician has been based for some time on the television persona of Marcus Welby, M.D. Television doctors of late have largely been residents in training whose struggles to develop their own professional and personal identities overshadow their work as physicians. In print, we have Abraham Verghese's several wonderful autobiographical explorations of being a physician, though they are in many ways particular to his unique background and experiences. Then there is Kathryn Montgomery's How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), which focuses on the epistemology of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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