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  • Killer Care

  • How Medical Error Became America's Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It
  • De: James B. Lieber
  • Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
  • Duração: 8 horas e 7 minutos

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De: James B. Lieber
Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
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Each year in the US, a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. If the number shocks, on some level you already knew it was so. Everyone knows someone - perhaps it was yourself - who has suffered miserable treatment in American hospitals, part of the most elaborate, most extensive and expensive health-care system in the world. But it is perhaps the most inefficient. Misdiagnoses, wrong prescriptions, operating on the wrong patient, even operating on the wrong limb (and amputating it): These are the consequences of rampant carelessness, overwork, ignorance, and hospitals trying to get the most out of their caregivers and the most money out of their patients. What are we to do?

Killer Care lays out the very real danger each of us faces whenever we enter a hospital. But more than that, it spells out what we can do to mitigate that risk. The book is also the story of the remarkable heroes fighting this plague of medical errors - patients and their families, but also doctors and nurses. Starting about 20 years ago, a number of victims and even some perpetrators of these errors began a social movement that offers us vital protections when we are most vulnerable: They have begun a cultural shift that is transforming every facet of health care.

©2015 James B. Lieber (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Resumo da Crítica

"A succinct, disturbing report on the prevalence of malpractice in modern medicine.... An imperative analysis that begs for discussion by industry watchdogs and consumers alike." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Brilliant...scholarly. A reading of Killer Care makes an immediate personal investment in our own safer patient-centered care logical and worthwhile.... Killer Care is strongly advised." (T. Michael White, MD, former VP and clinical professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; author, Unsafe to Safe)

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