Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder Review

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(More customer reviews)"Blind Eye" is a very disturbing book. There were several times throughout the book that my stomach was literally in knots due to the overwhelming revulsion and shock that a man like Swango might become a free man this month and return as a member of our society. This is a man who upon his release from prison would most likely have no problem poisoning other individuals that he just doesn't like. Or even poison individuals he doesn't know, just because he can.
I've read all 62 reviews and what I find most interesting is that one of Stewart's themes in the book is how doctors protect their fellow doctors. Of these 62 reviews many of the one-star ratings are posted by individuals who work in the medical field, or are doctors themselves. The five-star reviews are mostly written by people that have no professional relationship to medicine. OBVIOUSLY Swango's situation is unique, and OBVIOUSLY not all hospitals cover-up their internal indiscretions. But what some reviewers seem to be missing is that the point of this book is not to slander the medical industry. "Blind Eye" is the story of a serial killer who happens to be a doctor. While it's unfortunate that several hospitals acted irresponsibly, hopefully this book will open the eyes of administrators who might implement stronger screening guideline and more honest investigations of internal affairs.
While I did not "enjoy" reading this book, I found it an incredible piece of investigative journalism. Stewart is an excellent writer and this is a very important book.

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Adverse Events, Stress, and Litigation: A Physician's Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)Adverse Events, Stress and Litigation: A Physician's Guide was recommended to me by my daughter in pre-med. As an emergency physician with 30 years of experience in healthcare, I found this book a welcome addition to my continuing medical education. The authors provide an in depth synopsis of a topic which is fraught with anxiety for all physicians, medical malpractice. The book's unique strength lies in both content and format, setting it apart from other literature on the same topic. What it is NOT, is a sterile, didactic review on medical litigation. Rather, it walks the reader through the mine field of a claim or suit. It shines a light through the fog that is the legal process (and the associated attorney jargon) inherent in this stressful situation. Further, it provides the reader with tools to successfully navigate the system. Real life examples are integrated throughout, adding interest and even comfort. Every physician and physician-to-be should include this in their mandatory reading. I was surprised to find hope and solace in a book that is thoroughly informative and relevant. I highly recommend it.

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What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice? Bad medical outcomes traumatize patients but they also traumatize physicians. The litigation that often follows is a profoundly human, rather than just a legal experience.Although every physician's case is different, this book shows how each case goes through the same judicial stages of complaint, discovery, depositions, motions, and delays that lead to trial, settlement, or being dropped.It also gives doctors an understanding of how lawyers think and work to help defendants.Written by a physician and a lawyer, the book provides unique insights - through real-life stories - into the personal experience of litigation as well as recommendations for dealing with each of the legal process.It also includes up-to-date reviews of HIPAA legislation, the controversial subject of disclosure, and recent developments in the law affecting medical practitioners.Only about thirty percent of plaintiffs win their cases against doctors, but the journey from bedside to witness stand tests both the personal character and the professional skills of those accused.This well-documented book will help doctors understand and navigate the legal system while honoring their own ideals and emerging changed but stronger from the experience.

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Flawless: A Novel of Medical Suspense Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm not usually a fan of medical thrillers, but gave Joshua Spanogle's Isolation Ward a try and was glad I did. This guy can write! Hero Nate McCormick is a great flawed protagonist with a unique voice and someone who is easy to identify with. In Flawless, McCormick is back and Spanogle has managed to avoid the sophomore curse, returning with a novel just as good (if not better) than his first.
Nate has relocated to the West Coast to pursue a relationship with the girlfriend he reconnected with during his initial case (chronicled in Ward). He's jobless and hasn't found an apartment and his aimless state has started to wear on the burgeoning relationship. Into this state of things comes an old friend from his student days who wants Nate's help with something. But before Nate can find out what it is, his friend Murph is murdered, along with his wife and two children, plunging Nate into a complicated mystery swirling around a biotech company in the South San Francisco hills, coupled with Chinese gangsters and a series of photographs of women and men, faces disfigured by an agressive facial cancer.
Nate is warned off, his girlfriend is attacked, and several of the people in the photographs are killed in a variety of shocking ways, but McCormick just can't give up, feeling he owes something to the friend he lost track of. This is an excellent, fast-moving novel with three-dimensional, believable characters. Nate suffers for his investigation and his feelings of rage and helplessness are palpable. And his life continues to develop on the sidelines, in the manner of the best current detective fiction. Spanogle is a truly talented writer and I'm very much looking forward to his next novel. Flawless is very highly recommended!

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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Review

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(More customer reviews)Vivien Spitz is half German by heritage but, she strongly indicts her countrymen in this chilling account of horrific "medical experiments" that Nazi doctors and medical assistants performed on innocent people. The descriptions of what was done is creepy but the story must be told. Ms. Spitz was the youngest court reporter during the Nuremberg trials as she transcribed the testimony in the trals of medical personnel. She documents a dozen types of experiments and, some truly had no medical value but were done only for the sake of perpetrating inhumanity to non Arians, most of whom were Jews and Gypsies. There were other vicitms as well, such as Russians. Among the defendants, some were sentenced to death, others to prison terms of varying legnths and a total of seven were acquitted. The acquittals were probably due to the court leaning over backwards to make the trials look fair.
An example of an experiment that was done with no possible scientific value was to force victims to drink brackish seawater to see the effects. Of course this made the victims sick and drove them mad. Most did not survive. Another awful experiment was to amputate limbs and attempt to transpant them to others. Without modern microsurgery and anti rejection medication, this could never have possibly worked but these ghouls killed and permanently maimed people in the name of science. Even if this experiment could have worked, the real purpose was to do the most horrible acts of brutality on the victims, not to accumulate medical knowledge. Horrible diseases, such as malaria were deliberately introduced to vicitims. Another horrible experiment was to lock victims into vaultlike chambers where the atmospheric conditions of 68,000 feet in altitude could be simulated.
Ms. Spitz is truly a wonderful person as she makes sure that holocaust deniers don't get away with their revisionism. She has confronted them and, importantly, she has written this book. The book is difficult to read because of the horrors that are documented. Still, it should be read so that we never forget.

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Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics Review

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(More customer reviews)Tough Decisions is an outstanding book made even better in this long awaited second edition.
Unlike most collections of case studies, this volume does not simply present a variety of vignettes to be analyzed and evaluated. Instead, the reader is required to actually make tough decisions and then follow up on the consequences. Decisions often lead to further decisions and then still further decisions. Different readers will thus follow different paths through the text. The situations themselves are realistically described and include multidimensional characters and well-written dialogue.
The cases will provide a rich basis for discussion if this is used as a classroom text, but this is also an engaging and readable book for anyone interested in the tough decisions faced in healthcare every day.

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The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. Places medical and non-medical readers in realistic situations where they experience difficulties of making tough medical decisions. Cases are composites of actual cases the authors have seen or managed. Concluding chapters discuss major theories of medical ethics. Hardcover, softcover also available. DNLM: Ethics, Medical.

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A Piece of My Mind: A New Collection of Essays from JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association Review

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(More customer reviews)Roxanne K. Young, the editor of this book, is Director of the Department of Medical Humanities of the Journal of the American Medical Association. As a practicing physician, each week I and many of my colleagues turn first to the Journal's "A Piece of My Mind" column from which the essays in the book come. Mostly written by physicians, essays also come from other health care professionals, patients, families, and others. In reading this work, the reader will find the hopes, fears, feelings, dreams, concerns, and clear and poignant observations of those who heal. If you desire to know not just the science of medicine, but its heart and soul, read this book.

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A Piece of My Mind" (APOMM) is a weekly feature in JAMA; physicians, residents, medical students, nurses, patients, family members of patients, and others submit stories that reflect their experience and thoughts regarding health, illness, medical care, and death and dying. "APOMM" is the cornerstone of the JAMA Medical Humanities program, and surveys reveal that when readers open their new copies of JAMA each week , most turn first or second to "APOMM". Many stories are heart-warming. some are sad, some are funny, and all are thoughtful and thought-provoking. This new collection is the cream of the crop about 80 stories culled from the past 10 years. A previous collection in 1988, published in conjunction with Feeling Fine, Inc., and Alfred A. Knopf, sold about 14,000 copies.

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The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care Is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a physician who specializes in geriatrics and palliative medicine. I work in a busy tertiary care teaching hospital where some of the world's best specialists practice. Miracles of cure and life prolongation occur every day- liver and heart transplants, for example. But much more common is patients caught up in a system- marketplace is a more accurate description- of interventions- interventions that our specialists spent years in training learning how to do, and that they strongly believe are beneficial to their patients; interventions that are generously compensated by insurers; interventions that are not coordinated with all the other interventions provided by all the other specialists; interventions that have not been studied in the patient groups who are being subjected to them; interventions with significant side effects and consequences for many of the patients receiving them. Yet the unexamined belief- almost an article of faith among doctors and their patients- is that it is always better to do something than nothing in health care. Paradoxically, the truth is often just the opposite. Much of the time it is better to follow a different set of assumptions- when uncertain "don't just do something-- stand there." The Treatment Trap brings this situation to life through stories of real people- real people and their well-intended and very well-trained doctors- all doing what they were taught was right. For patients- See a doctor- do what they recommend. For doctors- See a patient, do something to show the patient you care, to make your living, to keep your practice above water. Interestingly, in support of the thesis of this book- that overtreatment is hurting and killing us- an increasing body of research shows that patients who get palliative care and hospice actually live LONGER than control patients receiving usual care- the usual care that Gibson and Singh reveal by listening to patients and families who have been there.


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Spine Disorders: Medical and Surgical Management Review

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(More customer reviews)As a resident in training I found this book to be an incredible resource. I particularly appreciated the information contained in the the Appendix under the section titled "Please don't make my mistakes." Experience is the best teacher and nowhere is this more evident than in the practice of medicine. A wonderful text and a smooth read.

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Doctors' Marriages: A Look at the Problems and Their Solutions Review

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(More customer reviews)My husband and I are both physicians; I work part time to take care of our 1 year old. He is still building his practice; so you can imagine our lives are a bit hectic. The book gave us a better perspective on what each other is going through in terms of stressors. Highly recommended reading for all professionals in a committed relationship whether or not you have any issues with the relationship.


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Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency (Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) Review

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(More customer reviews)The education of physicians must change. Flexner thought so. . .and so do these authors. Simply: They're right. Medical education is changing along with technology. If you're involved in the teaching of medical students, future physicians, or are in an academic setting, you'll want to read this book.

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Emerging from a study of physician education by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Educating Physicians calls for a major overhaul of the present approach to preparing doctors for their careers. The text addresses key issues for the future of the field and takes a comprehensive look at the most pressing concerns in physician education today. Like the Carnegie Foundation's revolutionizing Flexner Report of 1910, Educating Physicians is destined to change the way administrators and faculty in medical schools and programs prepare their physicians for the future.

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Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, Illustrated, Sixth Edition (Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary) Review

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(More customer reviews)My review is not based on a comparison of other medical dictionaries. With that in mind, this particular dictionary (book) is easy to read, has good illustrations, and about 30 pages of excellent human anatomy diagrams in the middle of the book. The CD is, as stated, a bonus; have not found a need to use it, but good to have. What I do not like about this "book," is that it was printed as a short, thick book. It would have been better to have a wider/thinner book, rather than a short/thick book; the illustrations wouldn't be so small otherwise. Finally, I like that the dictionary has ABC tabs to make finding a word quick and easy.

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