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Medical error : medical suspense with heart / by Mabry, Richard L.(CARDINAL)774239;
Dr. Anna Mcintyre's life was going just fine until someone else started living it. Her patient dies because of an identity mix-up; her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions; and her credit is in ruins. She thought things couldn't get worse, but that was before she opened the envelope and saw a positive HIV test with her name on it.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Medical fiction.; Women physicians;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 10
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Medical error [large print] medical suspense with heart / by Mabry, Richard L.(CARDINAL)774239;
Dr. Anna McIntyre's life was going along just fine until someone else started living it. Her patient died because of an identity mix-up; her career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions; and her credit is in ruins. She thought things couldn't get worse until she opened an envelope and saw a positive HIV test with her name on it. And the deeper Anna digs to discover who's behind the identity thefts, the higher the stakes.
Subjects: Large print books.; Medical fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Women physicians;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Top screwups doctors make and how to avoid them / by Graedon, Joe.(CARDINAL)158001; Graedon, Teresa,1947-(CARDINAL)326869;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Medical errors.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Death by medicine / by Null, Gary.(CARDINAL)152944;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Medical errors.; Medical errors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Avoiding medical errors : one hundred rules to help you survive mistakes by doctors and hospitals / by Fox, Robert M.,1925-author.(CARDINAL)830036; Landon, Chris,1951-author.(CARDINAL)831830;
"Preventable errors by doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers are a major cause of death and disability in the US, comparable to cancer and heart disease. The rules explored in Avoiding Medical Errors help patients avoid becoming victims and address areas that might otherwise be overlooked"--Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Medical errors; Accidents;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Anatomy of medical errors : the patient in room 2 : a nurse's story of surviving preventable medical errors and discovering the truth / by Crisp, Donna Helen,1947-author.(CARDINAL)415444; Sigma Theta Tau International,issuing body.(CARDINAL)756391;
Includes bibliographical references.Provenance -- Whose body is it? -- The surgery -- And so, things fall apart -- Fighting to hold on -- Locked inside myself -- Returning from the voide -- Awakening -- Body as backdrop -- Tolerating uncertainty -- Homecoming -- Life in a damaged body -- Family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues -- Truth -- Living in fear -- Facing death again -- The power of suffering -- The suffering of others -- The person inside the patient -- Verisimilitude -- No one is safe when there is silence -- Justice -- A better future
Subjects: Crisp, Donna Helen, 1947-; Medical errors; Medical care; Medical personnel and patient; Medical economics; Medical care.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Death by medicine / by Null, Gary.(CARDINAL)152944;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Medical errors.; Medical errors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Blood and guts : a history of surgery / by Hollingham, Richard.(CARDINAL)423202;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.Bloody beginnings -- Affairs of the heart -- Dead man's hand -- Fixing faces -- Surgery of the soul.
Subjects: Surgery; Medical errors;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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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.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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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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