Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 9/15/2009

9/15/2002:
Bills quarterback Drew Bledsoe ends a wild game at the Metrodome with a 48-yard touchdown pass to Peerless Price in overtime, giving Buffalo a 45-39 victory over the Vikings. Both Bledsoe and Price establish new one-game career statistical bests. There are four lead changes in the fourth quarter, capped by a 54-yard field goal by the Bills' Mike Hollis that bounces on the crossbar before finally going through on the last play of regulation, tying the game at 39-39.

Birthdays:
Gaylord Perry b. 1938
Pete Carroll b. 1951
Joel Quennneville b. 1958
Joe Morris b. 1960
Dan Marino b. 1961

Packers Fact:
Irv Comp once intercepted a pass in five consecutive games (in 1943).

WHAT’S UP, DOC?

Nobody’s perfect, not even your doctor. But most doctors get most diagnoses right most of the time. Jerome Groopman, Harvard Professor of Medicine and essayist for The New Yorker, examines those times when things go wrong. The questions Groopman asks are crucial: What assumptions do doctors make about patients that lead to misdiagnoses? And what can you, the patient, do to help your doctor think clearly and avoid fatal jumps to conclusions? This is one book that can definitely improve your health.

HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)