When we do harm : a doctor confronts medical error
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
610.289/OFRI,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 610.289/OFRI,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]
DESCRIPTION

262 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780807037881, 0807037885 :, 9780807037881
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Jumbo jets crashing -- A sea of uncertainty -- Making--or missing--the diagnosis -- The fever -- Diagnostic thinking -- The descent -- For the record -- The human consequences -- On the clock -- What you see -- I'll see you in court -- Is there a better way? -- Looking for answers -- Bringing along our brains -- The reckoning -- So what's a patient to do? -- Getting it right

"Physician and author Danielle Ofri investigates how medical error could be killing 10% of patients and causing 33% of hospital deaths. These stories ask us to reconsider what happens when the medical system does us harm"--