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- Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / by Welch, H. Gilbert.(CARDINAL)542604; Schwartz, Lisa.(CARDINAL)672797; Woloshin, Steve.(CARDINAL)549169;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Genesis : people become patients with high blood pressure -- We change the rules : how numbers get changed to give you diabetes, high cholesterol, and osteoporosis -- We are able to see more : how scans give you gallstones, damaged knee cartilage, bulging discs, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and blood clots -- We look harder for prostate cancer : how screening made it clear that overdiagnosis exists in cancer -- We look harder for other cancers -- We look harder for breast cancer -- We stumble onto incidentalomas that might be cancer -- We look harder for everything else : how screening gives you (and your baby) another set of problems -- We confuse DNA with disease : how genetic testing will give you almost anything -- Get the facts -- Get the system -- Get the big picture -- Conclusion : pursuing health with less diagnosis.Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs.- Subjects: Diagnostic errors.; Medical misconceptions.; Medical screening.;
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- Internal bleeding : the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes / by Wachter, Robert M.(CARDINAL)361480; Shojania, Kaveh G.(CARDINAL)689088;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-377) and index.- Subjects: Case studies.; Medical errors.; Medical errors;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- Dosage calculations demystified / by Keogh, James Edward,1948-(CARDINAL)513825;
Medication order and medication -- The formula method -- The ratio-proportion method -- Intravenous calculations -- Calculating pediatric doses -- Calculating a heparin dose -- Calculating a dopamine dose -- Calculating a dose for children using body surface area -- Enteral tube feedings.- Subjects: Pharmaceutical arithmetic.; Drugs; Chemotherapy; Medication errors; Medication.;
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- The smart mother's guide to a better pregnancy : how to minimize risks, avoid complications and have a healthy baby / by Burke-Galloway, Linda.(CARDINAL)825131;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Consumer education.; Medical errors; Pregnancy.;
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- State responses to the problem of medical errors : an analysis of recent state legislative proposals / by Flowers, Lynda.(CARDINAL)214527; National Academy for State Health Policy (U.S.)(CARDINAL)217791;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Medical errors; Medical errors; Patients;
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- Dirty work : a novel / by Weston, Gabriel.(CARDINAL)493395;
Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Throughout four weeks of intense questioning and accusations, this physician directly confronts for the first time her work as an abortion provider-- how it helps the lives of others but takes a heavy toll on her own."An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk) Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Nancy's fears about both her patient's chances for survival and whether she will be "undoctored" are made palpable to the reader. Throughout four weeks of intense questioning and accusations, this physician directly confronts for the first time her work as an abortion provider--how it helps the lives of others but takes a heavy toll on her own. Interweaving memories of Nancy's English and American childhood and adolescence, Dirty Work creates an emotionally charged portrait of one woman's life; the telling of seemingly untellable stories sets her free, as it can all women. Gabriel Weston has given us a truly original, courageous, and meaningful novel."--- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Medical fiction.; Novels.; Women physicians; Abortion; Medical errors;
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- Impostores / by Cook, Robin,1940-author.(CARDINAL)293718; Puerto Barruetabeña Diez, Ma. del,translator.(CARDINAL)692170; García Varela, Carlos,translator.; Sastre, Raul,translator.(CARDINAL)787952;
"Noah Rothauser es el nuevo responsable de residentes del Boston Memorial Hospital. Conocido por sus avances médicos y su tecnología de vanguardia, el hospital ha instalado varios «quirófanos del futuro». La buena acogida de las novedosas instalaciones llega a su fin cuando un hombre aparentemente sano muere debido a la anestesia durante un procedimiento rutinario. Noah no tarda en descubrir que el doctor William Mason, un prestigioso cirujano, es el responsable del error que le costó la vida al paciente y de, posteriormente, manipular su historial clínico. Sin embargo, Mason no tarda en culpar a la anestesista, Ava London, una profesional resolutiva y altamente cualificada. Cuando otros dos pacientes mueren por complicaciones con la anestesia, Noah tiene que cuestionarse a todos los residentes; incluida Ava, ya que esconde cosas: es adicta a internet y tiene multitud de perfiles falsos en las redes sociales. ¿Qué ocultan las distintas identidades de Ava? ¿Quién es el responsable de las muertes de los pacientes? Con su puesto y su credibilidad en entredicho, Noah deberá desentrañar el misterio y encontrar al culpable, y tendrá que hacerlo antes de que muera más gente... aunque su vida corra peligro."--Back cover.- Subjects: Medical fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Physicians; Anesthesiologists; Medical errors;
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- Safe patients, smart hospitals : how one doctor's checklist can help us change health care from the inside out / by Pronovost, Peter J.; Vohr, Eric.;
MARCIVE 09/01/10While Americans spend more on health care than any other country in the western world, our hospitals and clinics kill more patients. Patient safety expert Dr. Peter Pronovost is working to remedy that, by changing the way hospitals and doctors function day to day. In fact, his ideas are already saving people. By introducing a five-step checklist that standardizes a common ICU procedure, Dr. Pronovost has decreased the rate of infection--and as a result, unnecessary deaths--across the country by 90 percent. In this book, Dr. Pronovost makes reform relatable, easy to understand, and inspiring.--From publisher description.- Subjects: Medical errors; Hospitals; Lists.;
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- Internal bleeding : the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes / by Wachter, Robert M.(CARDINAL)361480; Shojania, Kaveh G.(CARDINAL)689088;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-444).The wrong patient -- It's the system, stupid -- Jumbo jets crashing -- Doctors' handwriting and other prescribing errors -- The forgotten half of medication errors -- Solving the riddle -- Of life and limb -- Did we forget something -- Practice makes perfect -- Handoffs and fumbles -- See one, do one, teach one -- Hubris and teamwork -- The other end of the stethoscope -- Spilling the beans -- Whether reports? -- Malpractice -- Accountability -- Attacking a new disease -- What can policymakers do? -- A culture of safety -- A system of safety -- What can patients do? -- Appendix 1: List of the seventeen individual errors in the wrong patient case -- Appendix II: Dangerous abbreviations used in prescribing -- Appendix III: Examples of easily confused sound-alike or look-alike drugs -- Appendix IV: Questions you may want to ask your hospital, medical group, or doctor, along with some comments by the authors.- Subjects: Case studies.; Medical errors.; Medical care; Medical errors; Medical care.;
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- What your doctor won't (or can't) tell you : doctors, hospitals, drugs, insurance--what you need to know to take charge of your own health / by Levine, Evan Scott.(CARDINAL)674102;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Biographies.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Levine, Evan Scott.; Cardiologists; Medical care; Medical errors.; Medical care.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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