Malpractice: a neurosurgeon reveals how our health-care system puts patients at risk 9781510712591, 9781510712607, 1510712607

Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1. The Reality of Patient Harm
2. Records Patients Aren't Allowed to See
3. How I Became a Doctor
4. How Doctors Cope with Trauma
5. The Art of Medicine
6. The Medical Conveyor Belt
7. The Time Crunch and Other Risks We Face
8. The Mask of Infallibility
9. Cover-Ups and Semantic Games
10. The Elusive Standard of Care
11. How Good is "Good Enough"?
12. Why Dr. Codman Got Fired
13. The Remarkable Case of Dr. Christopher Duntsch
14. Baseball Changes My Life-Again
15. Propaganda War and the Myths of Malpractice. 16. In the Courtroom17. Every Doctor for Himself
18. Rational Responses to Malpractice
19. In Praise of the Responsible Patient
Endnotes
Acknowledgments.

Polecaj historie

Malpractice: A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors [Original retail ed.] 1510712593, 978-1510712591

An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system

533 40 456KB Read more

Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants 9780674058927

Take a random walk through your life and you’ll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a

119 29 695KB Read more

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they

882 109 747KB Read more

Sidelined: How Women Can Navigate a Broken Healthcare System 9781647424022

DON'T MAKE ANOTHER HEALTHCARE DECISION WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK. Learn how to navigate a broken healthcare system.

236 38 420KB Read more

Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare 9781627343169, 9781627343176, 2020034646, 2020034647

Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare exposes a vast conspiracy of

409 50 448KB Read more

Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World 1615197931, 9781615197934

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today In o

1,050 217 2MB Read more

The moral distress syndrome affecting physicians: how current healthcare is putting doctors and patients at risk 2020012901, 9780367473044, 9780367471538, 9781003034766, 0367473046, 0367471531

The rise of suicide and burnout among physicians has brought a new disease to the healthcare provider, which we previous

356 55 11MB Read more

Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It 9780231518611

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthc

212 52 944KB Read more

Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It 9780231518611

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthc

240 91 926KB Read more

All That Moves Us : A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience 9780593243374, 9780593243367

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can opera

415 83 5MB Read more