What if hospitals and doctors could quietly bury their mistakes? This fascinating, best-selling novel tells you why they can't. Three young men from different backgrounds have graduated from medical schools and have become surgical fellows at a leading teaching hospital in Boston. They learn to become surgeons, to communicate with patients and families, and to be observed and appraised by their peers and professors on daily rounds. And each month - sometimes with dry mouth and rapid pulse - each attends the meeting of the ...
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What if hospitals and doctors could quietly bury their mistakes? This fascinating, best-selling novel tells you why they can't. Three young men from different backgrounds have graduated from medical schools and have become surgical fellows at a leading teaching hospital in Boston. They learn to become surgeons, to communicate with patients and families, and to be observed and appraised by their peers and professors on daily rounds. And each month - sometimes with dry mouth and rapid pulse - each attends the meeting of the Mortality Conference, known to all as the Death Committee, which examines every patient loss for possible human error, in order to prevent it from happening again. How the Death Committee affects and is affected by the lives, loves, and ambitions of three new doctors is the theme of this intriguing and profoundly moving novel.
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Near Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 362. 361 pp. Front and rear endpapers have residue from cellophane tape; rear free endpaper has a major closed tear; cover has some residue from cellophane tape; spine is creased; previous owner name on front free endpaper. Jacket is scuffed and creased at upper and lower edges.
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