The translation of Medical Decision Making: A Physician’s Guide into Portuguese has been published by Guanabara Koogan SA as Decisões Médicas Baseadas em Evidências (“Medical decisions based on evidence”), which is an interesting spin on the book. Of course, we’re interested in decisions based on values at least as much as evidence, but I can see where this may have been a marketing decision by the publisher.

My Portuguese is very limited, but I’ve flipped through it and I think the translator, Marcio Moacyr de Vasconcelos, a Pediatric neurology fellow at George Washington University and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Universidade Federal Fluminense, has done a creditable job. I’ll try to get a picture of the cover somewhere on this web site soon.

This only came to my attention today, but MDM:APG was reviewed in Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading journal in the field, in March 2009. You can read the review online here.

Doody’s Review Service, widely used by medical libraries, now has the first formal review of Medical Decision Making: A Physician’s Guide. Here’s an excerpt:

“a thoughtful exposition of the breadth of the medical decision issues to which the analyses of decision theory have often been applied. The authors’ approach to medical decision making ensures that readers from different backgrounds understand the concepts by expressing them in words, elaborated with concrete numerical examples and graphs, instead of expecting symbolic formulas to communicate….This book has the potential for teaching practicing physicians to make good decisions and to make decisions well.”
–Doody’s Review Service

The cover story in the March 2009 issue of MD NetGuide is “The Risk of Risk: Explaining Difficult Concepts to Patients“, by G. Stephen Nace, a physician at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria who I recently had the pleasure to meet. Making Medical Decisions is prominently cited in the piece.

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I’m pleased to announce that Medical Decision Making: A Physician’s Guide will soon (well, within 2 years) be available in a Portuguese language edition from Editora Guanabara Koogan SA/GEN in Brazil.

Any translation is exciting, but I’m particularly happy about this because I had the great pleasure of spending five weeks teaching Brazilian health care faculty in southern Brazil about a dozen years ago and I really enjoyed the people, the country, and the language. Otima!

I’ve just received some advance copies of Medical Decision Making, so I’m pleased to report that it exists and will soon be available. It looks very nice, too – Cambridge did a nice job with the production.

Amazon is now listing Medical Decision Making: A Physician’s Guide as available for pre-order, with an expected release date of June 30May 29, 2008!

The link is here.

Today I transmitted the manuscript for Making Medical Decisions to Cambridge University Press, our publisher. Of course, there’s still copyediting and all sorts of other work to be done before it appears in the bookstores. When a production schedule has been worked out, I’ll update the readers here.