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[Live Forever]

I know it isn't specifically related to life extension, but I have seen Dr. Jerome Groopman's new book called "How Doctors Think" mentioned in a couple of places. (Dr. Groopman was interviewed on The Colbert Report, and the book was also mentioned on the Freakonomics blog which I read religiously, as I am sure a number of other places)

It seems like a really interesting book from a doctor telling the types of decision making processes that doctors have, how and why they make mistakes, and how best to use information that doctors give you. I have it ordered, and I am looking forward to getting to read it. I would think it would be good stuff to know for anyone that wants to be able to interpret what their doctor is telling them. (most people here I would assume)

[Live Forever]

I also found the NPR report on it (although the audio isn't working at the moment because I think they might be doing maintenance on the site or something):
http://www.npr.org/t...storyId=8892053
It has an excerpt from the book.


...and here is the CBS news report on the concept in general:
http://www.cbsnews.c...in2579660.shtml

[Destiny's Equation]

Looks like just the book for me

I frequently ruffle my doctors' feathers; I have all the social sophistication of a moose.

(Unfortunately this leads to them not even bothering to run tests, and blowing off my illnesses as hypochondria... )

[bio123]

The best doctor is Dr. Google - I've lost track of how many times I've found
much more useful advice on the net than I've got from any doctor (and you don't
have to wait for 45 minutes while reading ten year old Reader's Digests either.)
I'd like to see a test where a doctor's advice is compared to a reasonably
intelligent person doing searches on the net; after all a doctor can't know more
than a fraction of the sum of medical knowledge. (Have any been done?) Of course
we still need them to run tests, but how long before we have a machine or robot to do that?