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Internal bleeding : the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes
- Title
- Internal bleeding : the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes / Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania.
- Author
- Wachter, Robert M.
- Publication
- New York City, NY : Rugged Land, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- 441 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Two doctors and experts in the study of patient safety and hospital quality provide a close-up look at the medical errors that occur in America's overburdened, underinsured, and often unaccountable health-care system.
- "Internal Bleeding exposes the dark secrets behind the glistening facade of modern medicine. Doctors Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania, professors at one of America's leading medical schools and two of the world's foremost authorities on medical mistakes, shatter the silence to tell the dramatic and compelling stories of real patients betrayed by a system they trusted to save them."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Note
- Jacket designed by Timothy Hsu--AIGA Design Archives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-428) and index.
- Contents
- A New Epidemic -- The System -- The Wrong Patient -- It's The System, Stupid -- Jumbo Jets Crashing -- The Errors of Our Way -- Doctors' Handwriting and Other Prescribing Errors -- The Forgotten Half of Medication Errors -- Solving the Riddle -- Of Life and Limb -- Did We Forget Something? -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Handoffs and Fumbles -- See One, Do One, Teach One -- Hubris and Teamwork -- The Other End of the Stethoscope -- Consequences -- Spilling the Beans -- Whether Reports? -- Malpractice -- Accountability -- Cures -- Attacking a New Disease -- What Can Policymakers Do? -- A Culture of Safety -- A system of Safety -- What Can Patients Do? -- List of the Seventeen Individual Errors in the Wrong Patient Case -- Dangerous Abbreviations Used in Prescribing -- Examples of Easily Confused Sound-Alike or Look-Alike Drugs.
- ISBN
- 1590710169
- 9781590710166
- LCCN
- 2003114047
- OCLC
- ocm54096046
- 54096046
- SCSB-4869649
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries