In the beginning...

Dr. Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think was the first book that started me on my medical reading.  I got it back in high school and read it early in college.  This is a great book for both patients and people in the medical profession.  Groopman, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and author of several other books, offers a complete and thoughtful metacognitive analysis for doctors without being critical.  He arms patients with the ability to tug at their physician’s thought processes and implores his fellow doctors to become aware of where their thinking goes wrong.  I particularly enjoyed the chapter about the cardiologist from Ohio who was a Sherlock Holmes fan.