Your Medical Mind_ How to Decide What Is Right for You - Jerome Groopman [107]
66 The importance of standardization in safety measures and emergency care: Susan Dentzer, “Still crossing the quality chasm—or suspended over it?” Health Affairs 30 (2011), pp. 554–555; Debabrata Mukherjee, “Implementation of evidence-based therapies for myocardial infarction and survival,” JAMA (editorial) 305 (2011), pp. 1710–1711. A poignant recounting of the origins of the patient safety movement, told in a mother’s voice: Sorrel King, Josie’s Story: A Mother’s Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe (New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009).
CHAPTER 4: REGRET
70 An overview of systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, and patients who achieve long-term remission like Lisa Norton:JosefS.Smolen, “Therapy of systemic lupus erythematosus: A look into the future,” Arthritis Research 4 (Suppl. 3) (2002), pp. S25–S30; Murray B. Urowitz et al., “Prolonged remission in systemic lupus erythematosus,” Journal of Rheumatology 32 (2005), pp. 1467–1472.
71 A history of natural healing is found in the excellent book by Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008). See also Andrew Weil, Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body’s Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). The comment by Lisa Norton about her “wacky books” calls to mind a famous and contested case of remission of autoimmune disease following bed rest and humor; see Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1981). Dr. Howard Spiro, a gastroenterologist at the Yale School of Medicine, analyzed Cousins’s story and speculated it might be a misdiagnosis in The Power of Hope: A Doctor’s Perspective (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).
75 The importance of recognizing making decisions when “hot” and when “cold” is found in George Loewenstein, “Hot-cold empathy gaps and medical decision making,” Health Psychology 24 (2005), pp. S49–S56; also see Paul Slovic et al., “Affect, risk, and decision making,” Health Psychology 24 (2005), pp. S35–S40; Sarah Lichtenstein and Paul Slovic, “The Construction of Preference: An Over view,” in Lichtenstein and Slovic (eds.), The Construction of Preference (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
75 There has been considerable research over the past decade trying to distinguish between beneficial effects of surgery versus placebo in alleviating pain and improving function in the treatment of arthritic joints, particularly the knee; see David T. Felson, Joseph Buckwalter, “Debridement and lavage for osteoarthritis of the knee,” NEJM 347 (2002), pp. 132–133; Brian R. Wolf, Joseph A. Buckwalter, “Randomized surgical trials and ‘sham’ surgery: Relevance to modern orthopaedics and minimally invasive surgery,” Iowa Orthopaedic Journal 26 (2006), pp. 107–111; J. Bruce Moseley et al., “A controlled trial of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee,” NEJM 347 (2002), pp. 81–88. The variable course of bone-on-bone arthritis of the knee is highlighted in the vignette by Dr. Donald Berwick in “My right knee,” Ann Intern Med 142 (2005), pp. 121–125. Also see Thomas M. Burton, “New doubts about popular joint surgery,” Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2008.
77 There is extensive literature on regret and decision making. For work by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky related to investment and regret, see Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, “The psychology of preferences,” Scientific American 246 (1982), pp. 160–173; Daniel Kahneman, Dale T. Miller, “Norm theory: Comparing reality to its alternatives,” Psychological Review 93 (1986), pp. 136–153. The example of regret