The World's Worst Medical Mistakes

by Martin Fido

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Available

Call number

610

User reviews

LibraryThing member woollymammoth
Given to me as a joke by my housemates in 1999. It's sometimes interesting to look at it now.

Now I'm an adult Doctor as opposed to a Medical Student we look at intellegent root cause analysis of mistakes, and looking at ways to prevent them. All this book does is document mistakes and scare
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people. The section on 'wrong patient right operation' did mention the way that pre-op procedures have changed.
I don't recommend this book to anyone who is likely to undergo medical treatment unless you want to get very very paranoid.
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ISBN

186309198X / 9781863091985

Local notes

A scary expose of accidental medical malpractice.
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