Second Opinions

Second Opinions illuminates the world of medicine where knowledge is imperfect, no therapy is without risk, and no prognosis is fully predictable. It portrays moments of astute diagnosis and misguided perception, of lifesaving triumphs and shattering failures. The real-life stories prepare us to navigate the uncertain terrain of illness, and enbale us to balance intuition and information, and thereby make the best possible decisions about our health and future.

"As simple and extraordinary as the murmur of the heart ... Groopman effectively commingles science and the sacred."
- The Boston Globe

"These clinical narratives, powerfully rendered, becone moral fables - several of them suggestive and telling enough to belong in the company of Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' or 'Master and the Man.'"
- The Washington Post Book World

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