How Doctors Think

I am reading a surprisingly good book written by a doctor with 30 more years of experience. He is trying to decode the mystery of the interaction between patients and doctors. The relationship between patients and doctors is quite a strange one, you have to trust your doc, and tell her/him every embarrassing pieces of information/history about your body. Though not a doctor myself, but I bet you get better attention when she/he likes you. When bonding forms, the communication flows freely in both direction. It doesn't matter whether she/he is the best in the field, patients get better treatment when their doctors listen. Mundane theory but amazingly how similar it resembles to any relationship in life. You don't need to have the brightest in the team to do the work, you have to put the right person in the right place to do the best job. Oh, I am flying off the tangent line again.

Of course doctors make mistakes, a lot of medical theories or procedures were not properly tested (you cannot test on human beings). For example, there is a standard point of entry to poke the bone needle into the fibric sack wrapping the heart if filled with liquid. If you ask any internists or surgen, where is the point, they can precisely recite the information. When asking why it is so, no one can really answer, they were taughted that is the correct way to go by their teachers in med schools, and so were their teachers.

To be honest, I was not expecting too much when purchasing this book, however, it is another very engaging read. Are doctors a special breed of intellectuals, they need to be logical and empathizing with their patients. It is also very interesting to see the world through their eyes. Highly recommended.