Dr. Leana Wen “When Doctors Don’t Listen“

Using the model of the empowered patient, Dr. Wen, formerly a clinical fellow at Harvard and now an ER physician at George Washington University, shows people how they help guide their doctors away from snap “cookbook“ medicine and toward more accurate diagnoses. According to a New York Times review: “The book’s insights and cautionary tales should appeal to medical and lay readers alike: they combine into a superb analysis of how doctors listen and think, a