Unaccountable : what hospitals won't tell you and how transparency can revolutionize health care / Marty Makary.
By: Makary, Marty
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TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.Description: 246 p. : charts ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781608198368 (hbk.) :; 1608198367 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Medical personnel and patient | Patient education | Health facilities -- Public relations | Medical errors | Medical care -- Quality controlDDC classification: 610.7306/9 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 610 M289 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003137486 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.
Some random doctor. Dr. Hodad and the raptor ; Danger zones ; The New York experiment ; The supersurgeon and the Shah ; "How I like to do it" ; Navigating the system ; Tap the power of patient outcomes -- The Wild West. Impaired physicians ; Medical mistakes ; Ask before you give ; Eat what you kill ; The all-American robot -- Transparency time. Drivers of culture ; Healthonomics ; Candid cameras ; A new generation for honest medicine ; What accountability looks like.
Asserts that doctors and hospitals are unaccountable. For example, surgical sponges are routinely left inside patients, the wrong limbs are amputated, and children overdosed because of sloppy handwriting. Yet despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses, neither error rates nor costs have come down in the past 10 years. Patients need to know more, so they can make informed choices.
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