Malpractice: a neurosurgeon reveals how our health-care system puts patients at risk
✍ Scribed by Bechtel, John;Schlachter, Lawrence B
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States.
- ISBN
- 1510712593
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The reality of patient harm -- Records patients aren't allowed to see -- How I became a doctor -- How doctors cope with trauma -- The art of medicine -- The medical conveyor belt -- The time crunch and other risks we face -- The mask of infallibility -- Cover-ups and semantic games -- The elusive standard of care -- How good is "Good Enough"? -- Why Dr. Codman got fired -- The remarkable case of Dr. Christopher Duntsch -- Baseball changes my life - again -- Propaganda war and the myths of malpractice -- In the courtroom -- Every doctor for himself -- Rational responses to malpractice -- In praise of the responsible patient.;The Institute of Medicine released a landmark report, which revealed that as many as 250,000 Americans die every year as a result of medical error. In Malpractice, neurosurgeon and attorney Dr. Lawrence Schlachter makes a case that most patients enter the system without any idea of the risks they face, due to a medical culture that denies there is a patient safety problem. He argues that medical culture actively avoids transparency, perpetuates an atmosphere of blind deference to doctors, and protects dangerous doctors from accountability.
✦ Subjects
United States