The Truth about Big Medicine

Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care
Herausgeber: Brown, Cheryl L; James, John T

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title drills deeply into the broken American health care industry-demonstrating how the medical industry's self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781442231603
• ISBN-10: 1442231602
• Artikelnr.: 40926017

Autorenporträt

Edited by Cheryl L. Brown and John T. James - Contributions by Rosemary Gibson; Robert E. Oshel; Yanling Yu; Gerald Rogan; Evelyn V. McKnight; Denise S. Lasater; Stephen S. Tower; Daniel M. Saman; Kiran B. Sagar and Lisa McGiffert

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Empowered Patient
John T. James
PhD
DABT
and Cheryl L. Brown
DBA
RN 1. The Failure of State Medical Boards to Protect the Public
Yanling Yu
PhD 2. Secrets of the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Failure of Medical Licensing Boards
Hospitals
and the Legal System to Protect the Public from Dangerous Physicians
Robert E. Oshel
PhD 3. Failures and Successes of Physician Peer and Performance Review
Gerald Rogan
MD 4. Dangerous Medical Devices
John T. James
PhD
and Stephen S. Tower
MD 5. A Contemporary Review of Health Care-Associated Infections
Daniel M. Saman
DrPH
MPH
CPH 6. Oversight of Physician Offices: Dr. Welby or Dr. Applebee?
Evelyn V. McKnight
AuD 7. Prescription Drugs-To Heal and to Harm
John T. James
PhD
DABT 8. After the Harm: Apology
Disclosure
and Trust
Cheryl Brown
DBA
RN 9. The Consumer Advocates Who Kicked the Hospital-Infection Nest
Lisa McGiffert
Director
Consumers Union Safe Patient Project 10. Medical Guidelines and Informed Consent-Routes to Safer Medical Care
Denise Lasater
DBA
RN; Cheryl Brown
DBA
RN; and John T. James
PhD 11. Medical Imaging: Does It Help?
Kiran Sagar
MD
FAHA
FACC Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Contributors