TY  - GEN
T1  - Errors, medicine, and the law
A1  - Merry, Alan
A2  - McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm51209259
AB  - 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.
OP  - 254
CN  - K4365 .M47 2001eb
SN  - 0511016301
SN  - 9780511016301
SN  - 9780511806063
SN  - 051180606X
SN  - 9780521806312
SN  - 0521806313
SN  - 9780521000888
SN  - 0521000882
SN  - 0511153538
SN  - 9780511153532
KW  - Medical personnel : Malpractice.
KW  - Medical jurisprudence.
KW  - Medical Errors : legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - Forensic Medicine
KW  - Liability, Legal
KW  - Malpractice : legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - Medical Errors : prevention & control
KW  - Quality of Health Care : standards
KW  - Personnel médical : Responsabilité professionnelle.
KW  - Médecine légale.
KW  - forensic medicine.
KW  - LAW : Medical Law & Legislation.
KW  - Medical jurisprudence
KW  - Medical personnel : Malpractice
KW  - Gezondheidsrecht.
KW  - Fouten.
KW  - Schuld.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -