Groopman is Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he also serves as director of the AIDS oncology program and director of the Mapplethorpe Laboratory.  Since 1998, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker (from which his chapter in Technology and the Future) comes.  He is the author of two books, Second Opinions and The Measure of Our Days, and is popular speaker and frequent guest on radio and television talk shows.

Groopman received both his B.A. and M.D. from Columbia University in New York. He served his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and served specialty fellowships in hematology and oncology at the University of California and Children's Hosptial/Sidney Farber Cancer Center in Boston.  His scientific research has focused on the basic mechanisms of cancer and AIDS.  His popular writings focus more on the human side of medicine.  Second Opinions, for example, consists of eight case histories, focusing on how patients' problems are diagnosed and the decision making that shapes their treatment and their ultimate outcome. A television series, Gideon's Crossing, based on this book, ran on ABC from October 2000 through April 2001.  The program was critically acclaimed, but failed to draw a large enough audience and was canceled after a run of seven months.

This is the seventh in a series of Tidbits of the Week devoted to the authors whose works appear in the just-published 9th edition of Technology and the Future.  Last week's Tidbit profiled Seth Shostak.  Future Tidbits will profile such other writers on technology as Amory and Hunter Lovins, Paul Duguid,  Robert Pool, and President George W. Bush (!). 

Order Jerome Groopman's book, Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine, from Amazon.com. (pb $11.20).
     Review by Harriet Klausner, Bookbrowser (Feb. 17, 2000).
     Review by Anita Manning, USA Today (March 8, 2000).
     Review by Siri Vaeth, Blueprint for Health (Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Minnesota, Oct. 20, 2000).
     Review by Jodi Elgart Paik, msJAMAonline (Journal of the American Medical Assn., Nov. 1, 2000).

Jerome Groopman's personal web site.  Includes a biography, information about his books, excerpts from some of his New Yorker articles, and information about his TV show, Gideon's Crossing.

Short version of Jerome Groopman's medical resumé, on the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center site, where he holds several positions, including chief of experimental medicine.

Transcript of Jerome Groopman's commencement address to the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he received an honorary doctorate, May 23, 2002.

Groopman discussing Second Opinions on "The Connection," a talk show on radio station WBUR, Boston (March 7, 2000), in RealAudio.

Groopman discussing "Andropause" (male menopause) on "The Connection" (July 29, 2002), in RealAudio.

Groopman discussing Second Opinions on "The Diane Rehm Show," a talk show on WAMU, Washington, DC (March 27, 2000), in RealAudio.

"A Doctor's Story" -- lengthy, interesting interview with Groopman by Katie Bacon on The Atlantic Online (March 8, 2000). 

Jerome Groopman, "The End of Aetiology," a review of two books about AIDS on The New Republic Online (November 1, 1999).

A conversation with Groopman by Gwen Ifill on PBS's Online NewsHour (June 8, 2000).

Reading guide for Groopman's The Measure of Our Days, by the publisher, Penguin Books.

Jonathan Shaw, "The Examined Life," Harvard Magazine (May-June 2000).  Profile of Groopman.

More information about the TV program, Gideon's Crossing:
     On TVTome.
     On Television Without Pity (viewers' reviews).
     On InfoPlease.com.
     On Disability World (in regard to a show on cochlear implants).