The Medical Malpractice Myth Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a model for what social science can do, in four ways.
First, it takes on an important topic--one that has generated incredible heat in the popular press and in political circles.
Second, it takes an entirely fair perspective. Old fashioned as it may seem, the author is actually interested in finding out the truth about the med mal problem.
Third, it surveys the available literature in the social sciences, reads and cogently digests every significant study, and assess the merits of each. The author is not an economist, but his understanding of economics and his sober and astute assessment of the quantitative AND qualitative evidence is terrific.
Finally, the book does all this with a clarity and cogency of writing that make it eminently readable. This is not a dull slog through endless tables and figures. While the empirical evidence is discussed, and there is even some attention paid to issues of methodological reliability and so on, the prose is lucid and no one interested in the topic will find it tough going in the least.
In fact, no one interested in the topic--from doctor to lawyer to politico--can afford not to read this book. If only more social science were this good, the world would be a better place.

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The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical Errors Review

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(More customer reviews)This book squarely tackles the problem of preventable medical errors. For any of the thousands of affected Americans, The Patient's Guide provides comfort that a talented medical professional like Ms Berntsen has devoted her attention and time to reducing the incidence of PMEs.

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A nation watched in horror as 17-year-old Jessica Santillian died needlessly after a heart-lung transplant in 2003. She had been given organs with the wrong blood type. That error killed her. It is just one among tens of thousands of less publicized errors that occur in U.S. hospitals each year. Author Karin Berntsen, a veteran of the hospital and health care industry, takes us through the headlines, and the events never publicized, into hospital wards and surgical rooms to see how errors are made causing disability or death. She gives graphic examples of actual events that illustrate the problems cited in a federal Institute of Medicine report showing medical errors in the hospital cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths each year. Those errors include medication mistakes, wrong site or side surgery, and botched transfusions. Berntsen explains why these are not just human errors with one or two people responsible; they are systems failures that require a major culture change to remedy. And that change, she argues, may not come without action by the very people the medical system is designed to help: patients. She offers clear actions consumers can take to assure they are not on the receiving end of a medical error. The book details over 200 tips for improving patient safety.



U.S. hospitals have countless stories of miraculous healing and recovery; the greatest technology, most advanced medicines, and best research in the world. On the other hand, we have a system where medical errors bring more than 120 fatalities each day across the country in hospitals. An airline crash causing that many deaths daily would paralyze that industry. But because the deaths and harm are diluted across and deep within the silence of hospitals, it is easier to be complacent. There is, says Berntsen, an urgent need to pause and take inventory, a need for clinicians and consumers to come together as partners for change.

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Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe Review

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(More customer reviews)Sorrel King knocks it out of the park with this book that deal's with an issue all parents fear. She show's the grief she bears and how she and her family work through it all. And in the process takes on Johns Hopkins Medical Center...and comes out a winner.
This book is a must for every family, hospital and library in America.

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