The medical detectives

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1. pjmorrisOct 2013
   Funny... that reminds me that in 'Programming Pearls' (http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/) Jon Bentley recommends the book 'The Medical Detectives' by Berton Roueche, as both entertaining and instructive for the kind of lateral thinking needed to debug.
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2. leephillipsMar 2013
   I have the book mentioned at the end, _The Medical Detectives_, by Berton Rouechè, and it is full of fascinating stories - highly recommended.
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3. silentbicycleFeb 2011
   Yes, absolutely.

   If you like House (for the medical mystery aspect rather than the snark), you may also like Berton Roueche's writing. _The Medical Detectives_ is a pretty good collection.

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4. anrJun 2010
   I'm very sorry to hear about your problem. I hope you keep investigating and find out what it is.

   If you haven't read it yet, maybe "The Medical Detectives" could inspire you. Jon Bentley said that it was the best debugging book he ever read.

   http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Detectives-Truman-Talley/dp/04...

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5. haskellandchillApr 2023
   > The medical community is a joke

   I've been reading "The Medical Detectives" and it seems like there used to be a stronger drive to seek understanding of the unheard.

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6. pjmorrisMar 2021
   For more on the Apollo 13 crisis response, check out 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox. I haven't met a more detailed popular examination of the engineering and management effort behind the Apollo program, and they spend some time on the 'back room' of engineers depicted in the film.

   I'm reminded of 'The Medical Detectives', Roueche, but only by reputation (I own a copy I haven't read.) "In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease."

   If you interpret 'The enemy might get the bomb before we do' as a crisis, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', Rhodes, is a detailed (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) examination of how we got from discovering the atom's nucleus to the consequences of deploying city-destroying weapons in a generation or so.

   You might find general systems theory interesting, maybe 'Thinking In Systems', Meadows, and/or 'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking', Weinberg.

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