Essential Reading for Residents: 5 Books to Broaden Medical Knowledge

1. 5 Books Every Resident Must Read Hans House, MD, MACM, FACEP Vice Chair for Education Department of Emergency Medicine University of Iowa

2. Objectives Achieving mastery Honing intuition Think differently Understand sources of error Apply the art of medicine

3. The 5 Books Malcolm Gladwells trilogy Tipping Point , Blink , and Outliers Freakonomics by Dubner and Levit How Doctors Think by Groopman Complications by Gawande The House of God by Shem

4. Malcolm Gladwell

5. The Tipping Point 2000 Inspired by the drop of crime in NYC real change possible Analyzes epidemics Mavens, connectors, salesmen 80 / 20 rule Limited application to medicine except public health

6. Blink 2005 Experts make snap judgments without realizing how they do it Enormous power of intuition Sick v not sick Thin slicing Prone to biases (curtained auditions blind tasting, IAT ) To do it correctly, it requires mastery of the subject . . .

7. Outliers 2008 10,000 hours, K Anders Ericsson ACGME latched on Deliberate practice (more on this later) Success is a group practice- not innate talent Environment of success (Bill Gates, The Beatles, Julia Child) Achievement gap

8. Outliers Plane crashes Sequence of errors 1990 Avianca 052 crash Mitigated Speech 2013 Asiana 214 crash 1. Command (Do this now) 2. Obligation statement (We need to do this) 3. Suggestion (Lets do this) 4. Query (Should I do this now?) 5. Preference (it might be a good idea to do this) 6. Hint (How about them Bears?)

9. Outliers Pure IQ does equate with success Threshold IQ needed Compared case studies, identified that success requires Practical Intelligence Emotional Intelligence (EI) BBC firing example IQ vs EI

10. Freakonomics Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levit

11. Freakonomics Originally published 2005 People respond to incentives, sometimes in unpredictable ways Unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom Relies on data, thinks differently Alternative explanation to the crime rate drop in NYC Physicians need to have alternate explanations for observations

12. Super Freakonomics 2009 Deliberate practice Setting goals Obtaining feedback Concentrating on technique Describes the development of the EHR Crash testing booster and seat restrained Prostitute chapter

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14. How Doctors Think 2007 Something for every specialty Systematic review of medical error types using patient anecdotes Example of anchoring Art of medicine

15. How Doctors Think few if any physicians work with this mathematical paradigm. The physical examination begins with the first visual impression A phenomenon called the eyeball test, pivotal moment when a doctor identifies something intangible yet unsettling in the patients presentation. That freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him [sic]. . . On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story

16. How Doctors Think Yerkes-Dodson law of task performance

17. The Art of Medicine Negative feeling cloud judgment Taking the time to sit and listen Newman: applying the art as Hippocrates would have done Plan for backup during a procedure = do the same with a complicated patient Example: Spanish speaking patient with headache with 4 visits

18. Complications Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

19. Affordable Healthcare Act

20. Complications Wrote as a surgical resident, published 2002 Discusses his own medical errors Echoes of Blink, Outliers, and House of God

21. Complications The most important talent may be the talent for practice itself Atul Gawande It is only human nature to want to practice what you can already do well, since its hell of lot less work and a hell of a lot more fun Sam Snead, golfer

22. Lifelong Quest for Perfection

23. Complications See one do one teach one Learning central line placement It is all I can do not to take over. But she cannot learn without doing, I tell myself. I decide to let her have one more try.

24. Complications Impaired physicians

25. Blink -> Complications

26. Complications Medicines ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom- for both patients and doctors- is defined by how one copes with it Its OK to say I don t know

27. The House of God 1978 Shocking, hypersexual, coarse, and unprofessional Embarrassingly real, burnout risk Collects traditions and mottos of hospital medicine Intro from How Doctors Think echoes some of these themes

28. Traditions Hoof beats and zebras LOL in NAD Buffing the chart Turfing the patient Being a sieve or a wall If what youre doing is working, keep doing it O sign and Q sign Chance to Cut is Chance to Cure Nothing Cures like Cold Hard Steel Gomer If what youre doing is not working, stop

29. Rules of the House of God GOMERS DON T DIE GOMERS GO TO GROUND AT A CARDIAC ARREST, THE FIRST PROCEDURE IS TO TAKE YOUR OWN PULSE THE PATIENT IS THE ONE WITH THE DISEASE. PLACEMENT COMES FIRST. THERE IS NO BODY CAVITY THAT CANNOT BE REACHED WITH A #14G NEEDLE AND A GOOD STRONG ARM. AGE + BUN = LASIX DOSE

30. Rules of the House of God THEY CAN ALWAYS HURT YOU MORE. THE ONLY GOOD ADMISSION IS A DEAD ADMISSION. IF YOU DON'T TAKE A TEMPERATURE, YOU CAN'T FIND A FEVER. SHOW ME A BMS WHO ONLY TRIPLES MY WORK AND I WILL KISS HIS FEET. IF THE RADIOLOGY RESIDENT AND THE MEDICAL STUDENT BOTH SEE A LESION ON THE CHEST X-RAY, THERE CAN BE NO LESION THERE. THE DELIVERY OF GOOD MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE.

31. In the [ED], as well, the jolt of feeling human refused to fade. I felt good, proud of my skills, excited. . . Sitting in the [ED] was like sitting on a bench in the Louvre; a human tapestry, ever unraveling under my eyes. Like Paris, the [ED] was a place unlimited in time: Id leave it and it would go on with me until I returned. An immense, humbling eternity of disease. - Samuel Shem, The House of God

32. Addicts trying to dupe you for dope, drunks, the poor, the clap, the lonelies- I hate em all. I dont trust anyone. It comes from being vomited on and spit at and yelled at and conned. Everyones out to get me to do something for their fake disease. The first thing I look for now is how theyre trying to take me for a ride. - Samuel Shem, The House of God

33. Conclusions Wow, the New Yorker has some awesome writers Challenge conventional thinking with data (EBM) Deliberate practice is hard, but works Disasters develop from a sequence of errors Use heuristics, but be aware of sources of error Avoid burnout