When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death
Juanne Nancarrow Clarke, "When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death"
English | ISBN: 1487508352 | 2022 | 334 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1487508352 | 2022 | 334 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Medical error often results in disability, pain, and suffering, and it is the third leading cause of death in hospitals. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the result of an isolated case of malpractice.
When Medicine Goes Awry argues that the causes of medical error are not an anomaly but rather the outcome of a number of factors at play, ranging from political to social to economic.
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