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Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them: (English)

Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them: (English)

          
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Now in paperback, every patient's must-have guide to the most common, preventable--and sometimes deadly--errors that hospitals, doctors' offices, and pharmacies make--and what readers can do about it A primary care doctor is skeptical of his patient's concerns. A hospital nurse or intern is unaware of a drug's potential side effects. A physician makes the most "common" diagnosis while overlooking the signs of a rarer and more serious illness, and the patient doesn't see the necessary specialist until it's too late. A pharmacist dispenses the wrong drug and a patient dies as a result. Sadly, these kinds of mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors. And new research from the University of Utah, HealthGrades of Denver, and elsewhere suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates and bestselling authors Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with the tragic consequences of doctors' screwups when Joe's mother died in Duke Hospital-one of the best in the world-due to a disastrous series of entirely preventable errors. In Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them, the Graedons expose the most common medical mistakes, from doctor's offices and hospitals to the pharmacy counters and nursing homes. Patients across the country shared their riveting horror stories, and doctors recounted the disastrous-and sometimes deadly-consequences of their colleagues' oversights and errors. While many patients feel vulnerable and dependent on their health care providers, this book is a startling wake-up call to how wrong doctors can be. The good news is that we can protect ourselves, and our loved ones, by being educated and vigilant medical consumers. The Graedons give patients the specific, practical steps they need to take to ensure their safety- the questions to ask a specialist before getting a final diagnosis, tips for promoting good communication with your doctor, presurgery checklists, how to avoid deadly drug interactions, and much more. Whether you're sick or healthy, young or old, a parent of a young child, or caring for an elderly loved one, Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them is an eye-opening look at the medical mistakes that can truly affect any of us-and an empowering guide that explains what we can do about it.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments 
Preface 
Safe Patient Checklist 
CHAPTER 1  Introduction 
CHAPTER 2  Top 10 Screwups Doctors Make
CHAPTER 3  Diagnostic Disasters 
CHAPTER 4  Top 10 Reasons Why Doctors
          Screw Up Diagnoses
CHAPTER 5  Preventing Diagnostic Problems 
CHAPTER 6 Top 10 Screwups Doctors Make When
          Prescribing 
CHAPTER 7  Drug Interactions Can Be Deadly 
CHAPTER 8  Top 10 Screwups Pharmacists Make
CHAPTER 9  Generic Drug Screwups
CHAPTER 10  Th e Screwing of Senior Citizens 
CHAPTER 11  Top 10 Screwups Patients Make
CHAPTER 12  Closing the Communication Chasm
CHAPTER 13  Top Screwups in Common Conditions 
Acne 
Alzheimer’s Disease
Arthritis 
Asthma 
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) 
Back Pain 
Breast Cancer 
Celiac Disease 
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) 
Depression 
Diabetes 
Fibromyalgia 
Heartburn 
Hypothyroidism 
Migraine Headache 
Osteoporosis
Prostate Problems 
Tick-borne Diseases
Appendix 1  Top 10 List of Potentially Problematic Pills 
Appendix 2  Top 10 Tips and Questions Lists 
Top 10 Tips to Stopping Screwups in Hospitals 
Top 10 Screwups Doctors Make 
Top 10 Diagnostic Screwups 
Top 10 Reasons Why Doctors Screw Up
     Diagnoses 
Top 10 Questions to Ask to Reduce Diagnostic
     Disasters 
Top 10 Screwups Doctors Make When
    Prescribing 
Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor When You
      Get a Prescription 
Top 11 Tips for Preventing Dangerous Drug
      Interactions
Top 10 Screwups Pharmacists Make 
Top 10 Tips for Taking Generic Drugs 
Top 10 Tips to Surviving Old Age 
Top 10 Screwups Patients Make 
Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before Agreeing
      to Surgery 
Top 10 Tips to Promote Good Communication 
Notes 
Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307460929
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Three Rivers Press
  • Depth: 15
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0307460924
  • Publisher Date: 11 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 202 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 261 gr


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