By James B. Lieber
ISBN-10: 0984295097
ISBN-13: 9780984295098
“A succinct, worrying document at the incidence of malpractice in smooth drugs. ….An central research that begs for dialogue by way of watchdogs and shoppers alike.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Brilliant...scholarly. A studying of Killer Care makes an instantaneous own funding in our personal more secure patient-centered care logical and precious. ...Killer Care is strongly advised.”
—T. Michael White, M.D., former vice chairman and scientific professor of drugs,
collage of Pittsburgh scientific middle; writer, Unsafe to Safe
“In Killer Care, James Lieber uncovers systemic mess ups and absence of safeguards in sufferer safeguard. His take-heed call not just informs, yet offers particular and actionable thoughts for sufferers and their households. His research additionally issues to method fixes that might make being a sufferer more secure for all of us.”
—Barbara Mittleman, M.D.; former director, application on Private-Public Partnerships,
workplace of technological know-how coverage, nationwide institutes of future health (2006-2012)
Each 12 months within the united states, 1 / 4 of one million deaths are caused by scientific mistakes. If the quantity shocks, on a few point you already knew it used to be so. we all know someone—perhaps it was once yourself—who has suffered depressing therapy in American hospitals, a part of the main difficult, such a lot huge and dear future health care process on the earth. however it is likely to be the main inefficient.
Misdiagnoses, mistaken prescriptions, working at the mistaken sufferer, even working at the mistaken limb (and amputating it): those are the results of rampant carelessness, overwork, lack of understanding, and hospitals attempting to get the main out in their caregivers and the main funds out in their patients.
What are we to do? Killer Care lays out the very genuine chance every one people faces each time we input a clinic. yet greater than that, it spells out what we will be able to do to mitigate that threat. The publication is additionally the tale of the amazing heroes struggling with this plague of scientific errors—patients and their households, but additionally medical professionals and nurses. beginning approximately two decades in the past, a couple of sufferers or even a few perpetrators of those mistakes started a social circulate that provides us very important protections once we are so much susceptible: they've got began a cultural shift that's remodeling each aspect of overall healthiness care.
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On November 4, 1979, due to the Shah’s presence in the United States, a mob once again raided the American Embassy in Tehran, this time taking sixty-six hostages. Fearing for their lives, the Carter administration now became desperate for the Shah to leave despite the fact that his blood counts dropped precipitously, indicating that removal of the spleen (a procedure carrying about a 15 percent risk of death) was a necessity. The operation could have been performed in Mexico, which had refused to allow his return.
The error stemmed from the hospital lab which reversed the results, and no one rechecked. In 2003, led by the Bush White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), himself a Tennessee heart-lung transplant surgeon, Congress took up legislation to cap medical malpractice jury verdicts for non-economic damages—generally termed “pain and suffering”—at $250,000. Frist had argued vociferously about “frivolous” suits, and especially a case brought by an elderly woman scalded by a cup of coffee clenched between her legs that she had purchased at a McDonald’s drive-through.
By ambulance, the child went to the burn unit at Johns Hopkins Bayside Hospital, but soon was transferred to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Hopkins Children’s Center where a ventilator breathed for her and a central line was inserted to 38 KILLER CARE supply medicine, food, and fluids while she received skin grafts from her own body and from donors. Third-degree burns are more disfiguring than second degree, but the latter ironically are more painful since third-degree burns destroy nerve roots and the ability to sense pain.
Killer Care: How Medical Error Became America's Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It by James B. Lieber
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