BITTER MEDICINE: What I've Learned and Teach about Malpractice Lawsuits (And How to Avoid Them)
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00611YBCA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 547 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Frivolous" Malpractice suits: Who says? Under the guise of a highly readable, even enjoyable teaching surgeon's memoirs of memorable cases, "Bitter Medicine" is a timely shout-out that the AMA Emperor may be every bit as naked as we suspected, and worse -- in these days when caveat emptor applies in spades to health care "consumers", "Bitter Medicine" gives patients, potential patients and caretakers an insider's list of Questions to Ask Your Doctors (While you still Can).. Great book for medical students, doctors, and anyone else affected by constantly evolving practice of medicine While many of the values, tests, and practices of medicine change as we learn more over time, there are also numerous qualities of the physicians themselves that will always hold true. In Bitter Medicine, Dr. Kessler highlights the importance of many of the innate qualities and skills that physicians should develop and possess to be a successful, but more importantly, competent doctor. It's a great read and I feel privileged to have learned first-hand from such an inspirational physician.. Great book! This is coming from a lawyer who Great book! This is coming from a lawyer who is now a first year medical student. Very easy read, with valuable medical liability snipits injected throughout story line. Should be required reading for every medical student.
Why? Happy outcomes can be boring. Holt, Rinehart & Winston published his book about his assignments in Antarctica covering DEEPFREEZE II & III, Penguins Have Square Eyes, in 1962. They proved to be effective teaching tools. No deep research was required. I didn’t have to go looking for horror stories. Catastrophes are unforgettable. In BITTER MEDICINE, he tells what he's learned first-hand as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. A SURGEON-PROFESSOR dramatizes tragic case histories to teach his medical students how to "Do No Harm" and avoid being sued for malpractice when they become doctors. I found that students retain more from studying medical disasters than perfectly executed procedures. I did not. I hope the cases I've discussed with my students will help readers make up their own minds about medical malpractice, health care reform, socialized medicine and other political footballs that are being tossed around today."SOME AMERICANS have been persuaded by politicians and pundits that most medical malpractice lawsuits are 'frivolous'–that they are without merit. Part memoir, part expose, BITTER MEDICINE (175 pages, 92,800 words) lets the reader "learn from the dead" in an anatomy laboratory, respond to "a sudden cry for help" in a hospital emergency room, and follow students as they discover how easy it is to maim and
J.C. . His book about covering DEEP FREEZE II & III in Antarctica, "Penguins Have Square Eyes", was published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1962. It was based on his NBC News documentary "Growing Up in Prison." He will soon publish a novel, "AMDG: An Ignatian Thriller". As a full professor at the NYU Medical School, he taught surgery and anatomy. Grant. He was also an attending surgeon at Bellevue Hospital. Army
Upon entering the medical school of McGill University in Montreal, he was asked to teach anatomy to his classmates because of his 400 hours of instruction from Dr. He was also an attending surgeon at Bellevue Hospital. About the Author RICHARD KESSLER, M.D., F.A.C.S., retired from the practice of medicine in 1995 after more than 30 years as a surgeon at the VA Hospital in Manhattan. Boileau Grant, a leading 20th Century anatomists whose "Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy" is still a required text. . Though retired from the practice of medicine, he still teaches anatomy to first-year medical students at NYU. Army doctor, a teacher, a researcher and an expert witness in medical malpractice law suits.” Co-author PATRICK TRESE has been writing professionally since college, mostly network news and documentaries for NBC News where he learned to translate complicated legal, political and scientific language into plain