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  • Josie's Story

    A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe

    de Sorrel King ...
    The "wrenching but inspiring" true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate ( The Wall Street Journal).Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family's new home. Taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, Josie made a remarkable recovery. But as she was ... Leer más

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  • Defying the King (Dragon Speakers #2)

    Dragon Speakers

    de Cora Foerstner ...
    Series Libro 2 - Dragon Speakers
    Defying the King: An epic, action-packed fantasy!A year ago, six young adventurers climbed Dragon Mountain. They pledged their lives to serve the Kingdom and became Dragon Speakers. Their courage brought magic back to the world. Their vision restored Dragon City to a place of learning and peace.Now Gwendolyn loves her dragon, her healing abilities, and her new friendships. But dreams shatter ... Leer más

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  • Dragon Speakers

    Dragon Speakers, #1

    de Cora Foerstner ...
    Series Libro 1 - Dragon Speakers
    Princess Gwendolyn grew up being told there were no such things as dragons - then one landed in her courtyard.Wealth and indulgence might have surrounded Princess Gwendolyn since birth, but she's far from blind to injustice. True-hearted and strong-willed, she sees the cruelty and corruption all around her and is committed to restoring fairness and justice to the kingdom when it's finally her turn ... Leer más

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  • Why Hospitals Should Fly

    The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care

    de John J. Nance, JD ...
    “How can it be that in 2008, a checked bag on an airline flight is still exponentially safer than a patient in an American hospital?  Simply put, one industry has learned the realities of what it takes to make a human system safe, and the other has not.  So what does it take to dramatically improve patient safety and service quality?  It takes a host of new and different (and sometimes radical) ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Malpractice

    A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health-Care System Puts Patients at Risk

    de Lawrence Schlachter, MD ...
    In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report, which revealed that as many as 98,000 patients were dying every year owing to avoidable medical error. More recent research indicates that estimate was, if anything, a drastic understatement of the patient-safety epidemic in the US health care system.In Malpractice, neurosurgeon and attorney Dr. Larry Schlachter makes a case that most ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • After The Error

    Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives

    de Susan B. McIver, Robin Wyndham ...
    Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their harrowing stories has helped to lay the foundation for numerous patient safety programs and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Best Practice

    How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

    de Charles C. Kenney ...
    Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or "complications" were found to be the fifth leading cause of death for Americans, and hundreds of thousands of patients were being harmed by botched medical procedures.Spurred by the quality ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Forgive and Remember

    Managing Medical Failure

    de Charles L. Bosk ...
    The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff—now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue.When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Your Money or Your Life

    Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System

    de David M. Cutler ...
    The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one in five Americans thinks the medical system works well. Enter David M. Cutler, a ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    de Adam Dalton Reich ...
    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical ... Leer más

    $38.19 USD

  • The Doctor Crisis

    How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care

    de Charles C. Kenney, Jack Cochran, MD ...
    Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives -- this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong in the physician world, and it is urgent that we fix it.Fundamental flaws in the US health care system make it more difficult and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • An Intoxicating Error

    Mistranslation, Medical Malpractice, and Prejudice

    de Gail Price-Wise ...
    Willie Ramirez is arguably the most important medical malpractice case related to language and prejudice. As a result of an interpreting error, Willie’s brain hemorrhage was misdiagnosed and he was left quadriplegic. On January 22, 1980, 18-year-old Willie Ramirez ate a fast food hamburger. That evening, he fell down unconscious and his Cuban family thought it was the hamburger that made him sick. ... Leer más

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