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"This is Chris. He's 18 months old. There is something Awfully wrong with his head, and no one will pay attention to me," I said as I sat my son down on the admitting counter in the emergency room of our local hospital at midnight. "I am going to leave him here until you figure it out." Then I turned around and walked out. Later, at 4a.m., Chris had an emergency operation to relieve a hemorrhage between his skull and brain, a problem several doctors had missed for almost three weeks because they thought his mother was overly protective and anxious. Chris made it. Many others in this book about Canada didn't. In fact statistics indicate that about 100,000 Americans die as the result of medical errors made in hospitals. This book is an attempt to breach the bulwark of silence thrown around those medical errors. It does so by letting victims speak for themselves. It reveals their agony and frustrations trying to uncover what went wrong and the ordeal of dealing with medical practitioners who defend themselves using public funds. Written by a coroner, this book contains lifesaving lessons and recommendations on what can be done to reduce the incidence of these often preventable tragedi

Who reads Medical Nightmares : the Human Face of Errors?

Author

McIver, Susan B. (Susan Bertha), 1940-

Publisher

Chestnut Publishing Group

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781894601023

Category

medicine

Subjects

Medical, Medicine

Updated

2026-03-25