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  • Josie's Story

    A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Why Hospitals Should Fly

    The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care

    “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) ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • Malpractice

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

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • After The Error

    Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Best Practice

    How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Forgive and Remember

    Managing Medical Failure

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Your Money or Your Life

    Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Doctor Crisis

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

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • An Intoxicating Error

    Mistranslation, Medical Malpractice, and Prejudice

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Paradox of Hope

    Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

    Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Art of CAREFUL

    How your leadership can create safe, compassionate and effective healthcare

    par DJ Brown ...
    If you are a leader or manager who works in healthcare — and that includes most doctors and nurses, as well as those with ‘manager’ in their job title — this book is written for you.Healthcare accounts for more than 10 per cent of all spending in developed countries. Millions of people work health services across the world.Of this vast number of healthcare workers, a majority are leaders – yet few ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD