Required reading: How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman, who is a medical doctor, teacher and writer. It's a book about how physicians come to diagnoses -- and how they miss diagnoses. Groopman does a wonderful job of reflecting on his own experience, and interviews many other docs, revealing the ways of thinking that lead to correct diagnoses, and how the thinking process can be cut short, causing errors to be made. Groopman also often suggests how patients can share information that is helpful to doctors in their thinking. Patients often don't do that!

A book for doctors and patients. I think that's all of us.