Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine
Publisher: Basic Books; Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: Feb 23, 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780465098576
Description: "Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain still. There is a significant amount of uncertainty in the daily practice of medicine, resulting in confusion and potentially deadly complications. Dr. Steven Hatch argues that instead of ignoring this uncertainty, we should embrace it. By digging deeply into a number of rancorous controversies, from breast cancer screening to blood pressure management, Hatch shows us how medicine can fail--sometimes spectacularly--when patients and doctors alike place too much faith in modern medical technology."--Jacket.