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The cover of the current issue of The New York Review of Books leads with a headline describing a piece by Jerome Groopman: When Doctors Go Wrong (paywall).

I turned to it with anticipation. Groopman, most often found in the pages of The New Yorker, is a guy you want to follow. He's done some good work.

Sadly, in this case, it's not only the doctors who go wrong: It's Groopman.

The piece (entitled The Lost Boy) is a disappointment. Groopman begins by filling more than a column with reminiscences of his medical school days, and how difficult it was for him to cope with sick children in the pediatrics ward. Those unsurprising grafs could have easily been clipped off, because once he gets that out of the way, he gives a fair account of a gripping book by Doron Weber,...