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Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty

• "This intriguing book should become known to anyone who enjoys grappling with philosophical issues in medicine by means of concrete clinical examples rather than solely in abstraction." - American Journal of Psychiatry
• "Medical Choices, Medical Chances, written for patients as well as physicians, is especially valuable because it clearly shows that medical decisions are not necessarily cut and dried, but involve knowledge, experience, skill, judgment, and chance." - Journal of The American Medical Association
• "This book adds a new level of sophistication to the discussion...suggesting that understanding uncertainty as a fact of life is one of the most valuable lessons anyone can learn."
  
  "A meaningful analysis of the way physicians act, think and behave, suggesting that understanding uncertainty as a fact of life is one of the most valuable lessons that anyone can learn...Medical Choices, Medical Chances offers hope for the future." - New England Journal of Medicine
• "One cannot help but view this book and its thesis as a watershed in contemporary medical thinking." - The Journal of Family Practice
• "I consider this book to be ahead of its time and the discussion of medical models very useful to current shifts in how we conceptualize health and illness." - Alexandra Todd, Suffolk University
• "In Medial Choices, Medical Chances the authors develop a powerful model of probabilistic decision-making in medicine...They succeed in a rare attempt at producing a theoretically valuable synthesis, and at the same time a practical application for medical professionals." - Phil Brown, Brown University

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Reference

Bursztajn HJ, Feinbloom RI, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty. New York: Delacorte, 1981; New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990.