When we do harm : a doctor confronts medical error
(2020)
By:
Ofri, Danielle
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
610.289/OFRI,D
Availability
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"--