Table of Contents
Authors' Note 9
Prologue: What This Book Is About 11
Part I Some Basics
Chapter 1 The Doctor You Want (It's Not Who You Think) 15
Chapter 2 Uncertainty Is Essential to Personal Health Care 23
Chapter 3 Finding Your Doctor: A Field Guide 37
Chapter 4 Where Doctors Come From 47
Part II A Few Doctors' Maladies to Watch For … and Why
Chapter 5 The Yes-or-No Obsession 61
Chapter 6 The Infallibility Illusion 71
Chapter 7 The "Poor Me" Syndrome 83
Part III Some Things That Your Doctor Should Know … and Why They Matter
Chapter 8 The Difference between "Facts" and Facts 95
Chapter 9 Information Is Not Necessarily Knowledge 109
Chapter 10 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Statistics 121
Chapter 11 Don't Believe Everything You Read, No Matter Where You Read It 133
Part IV Some Things to Expect from Your Doctor
Chapter 12 Your Story Is Front and Center-Narrative-Based Medicine 147
Chapter 13 An Expert Escort from Guidelines to Protocols 161
Chapter 14 The Benefits of Ignorance 171
Chapter 15 The Laying On of Hands 181
Part V Fears and Hopes for the New Medicine
Chapter 16 The Fear of a Tyranny of Experts and Sensors 193
Chapter 17 The Hope for a Digitally Powered Doctor 205
Epilogue
An Optimist's Dream 215
Some Observations on the "New" Medicine 216
Notes 219