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Errors, Medicine and the Law

Name: Errors, Medicine and the Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02044190
Price: 108.59 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Alan (University of Auckland) Merry
ISBN: 9780521806312

Alan (University of Auckland) Merry

Alexander (University of Edinburgh) McCall Smith

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02044190

Publishers Cambridge University Press, August 2001

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Untoward injuries are unacceptably common in medical treatment, at times with tragic consequences for patients. The phrases 'an epidemic of error' and 'the medical toll' have been coined to describe this problem of 'iatrogenic harm', which it has been suggested may have contributed to 98,000 deaths per year in the US. Some of these incidents are the result of negligence on the part of doctors, but more usually they are no more than inevitable concomitants of the complexity of modern healthcare. This book is fundamentally about distinguishing the former from the latter. Although medicine is used as the book's primary example, the points made apply equally to aviation, industrial activities, and many other fields of human endeavour. The book advocates a more informed alternative to the blaming culture which has increasingly come to dominate our response to accidents, whether in the medical field or elsewhere.