Invoking dramatic previously untold cases, two dynamic physician-professors investigate the rampant errors endemic to modern medical care and suggest ways to prevent hospitals and doctors from inadvertently killing their patients.
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Invoking dramatic previously untold cases, two dynamic physician-professors investigate the rampant errors endemic to modern medical care and suggest ways to prevent hospitals and doctors from inadvertently killing their patients.
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New. 1590710169. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-320 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 1.48 x 9.12 x 6.36--IMPORTANT: Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. --From Booklist: "When the venerable Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report in 1999 citing nearly 100, 000 deaths annually as a result of medical errors, it was, Wachter and Shojania contend, news only to those outside the medical field; indeed, it shocked only those outside the medical community. Moreover, many practitioners and hospital administrators might not have been astonished had the figure reported been higher. Regardless, and even though doctors and hospitals had been trying to deal with preventing medical mishaps for years, the IOM's public revelation put them on the spot. The immediate solution: hunt down the culprits and sue them! But resorting to the adversarial system subverts a real solution, say Wachter and Shojania, who in this compendious volume recount some medical horror stories, expose the systemic obstacles that support errors, and propose methods to fix the health-care system. Valuable for the lay patient not just for its glimpses behind the curtain but for its appendixes concerned with avoiding becoming a victim of medical mistakes."--with a bonus offer--