When we do harm : a doctor confronts medical error / Danielle Ofri
By: Ofri, Danielle [author].
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2020Description: 262 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780807037881; 0807037885.Subject(s): Medical errors -- United States | Medical care -- United States | Medical personnel and patient -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R729.8 .O37 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000017091 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"--