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When Boston-based Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical negligence, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who has endured grueling years of training and worked continuously in the service of others, he is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he...

Fredrik Welin is a reclusive ex-surgeon living alone on a tiny island in the north of Sweden. His only companions are a pair of aged pets, and the only society callers to his living room are ants that are transforming his table into an enormous anthill. Every morning, the loner goes out to the frozen lake, cuts a hole in the ice, and then plunges himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is still alive. Four women enter his life: Harriet,...

Collecting anecdotes from interviews with health-care providers across the U.S., this book is a shocking firsthand account of the current U.S. health-care industry crisis--a crisis distinguished by its astronomical costs and limited quality care--that affects virtually every person in the country. The stories reveal the greed, egotism, malpractice, sex, power and suffering, but also include remarkable portraits of hope, miracles, and a deep desire...

"Learn from court cases that have set the parameters for your nursing practice. Find out what you're doing that leaves you open to a nursing malpractice charge. Discover how you might fare in a lawsuit, ways to defend yourself, and how to stay out of court in the first place."--Jacket.

With coverage of both legal and ethical issues, this text gives you the foundation to handle common health care challenges in everyday practice. Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professions, 4th Edition includes practice cases specifically developed for key allied health programs along with enhanced pedagogical content. Additionally, it features a variety of exercises to help reinforce content from the book, as well as updated coverage of medical...

How safe is your hospital? After his daughter's death, Sidney Zion launched a fiery campaign against New York Hospital, its doctors, and our entire medical infrastructure that centered on that question. Eventually, his efforts led to sweeping reforms in the rules governing hospitals in America and abroad, and made the name Libby Zion a buzzword for medical malpractice. Recently, viewers across the country were mesmerized by Court TV's dramatic trial...

"Candace Newmaker was an adopted girl whose mother felt the child suffered from an emotional disorder that prevented loving attachment. The mother sought attachment therapy - a fringe form of psychotherapy - for the child and was present at her death by suffocation during that therapy. This text examines the beliefs of the girl's mother and the unlicensed therapists, showing that the death, though unintentional, was a logical outcome of this form...

Baker argues that the conventional wisdom about the medical malpractice crisis is a myth, and "the real problem is too much medical malpractice, not too much litigation." He contends that research shows that amounts paid for auto liability, workers' compensation, and product liability insurance dwarf the amounts paid for medical malpractice insurance, which represent less than 1 percent of health care costs. Only 3 percent of medical malpractice victims...