Reviews and Notes: Disease, Diagnosis and Decisions

Disease, Diagnosis and Decisions

Graham W. Bradley. 182 pages. New York: John Wiley and Sons; 1993. $29.95.

Medical students react strongly when first exposed to real patients. They are often baffled by the ease with which more experienced clinicians render humane, effective judgments about complicated questions of patient care; their teachers make it look so easy! If there were an ESPN television network of medicine, medical students might ask the same question as the chubby basketball wannabe: “How do they DO that?” …