Botching a major surgery when his ambition for a prestigious job gets the better of him, Steve Mitchell learns that a patient who died under mysterious circumstances was targeted by a sociopath who holds information capable of destroying Steve's family and career. 100,000 first printing.
Howard Scher, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in 1993 that struck at the heart of Snuffy's reasoning. Scher's research reported that merely withdrawing hormone-refractory ...
Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms.
Drawing on detailed analysis of the distinction between doing and allowing, Fiona Woollard argues that the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing is best understood as a principle that protects us from harmful imposition.
“Crammed with provocative insights, raw emotion, and heartbreaking dilemmas,” (The New York Times) First, Do No Harm is a powerful examination of how life and death decisions are made at a major metropolitan hospital in Houston, as told ...
When an unknown attacker is injured in the process of his capture, ER chief David Spier is ostracized for treating the man, a situation that is further complicated when the assailant escapes, prompting Spier to delve into his own past.
In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes.
A New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize A Finalist for the Wellcome Book ...
In Ask Me About My Uterus, Norman describes what it was like to have her pain dismissed, to be told it was all in her head, only to be taken seriously when she was accompanied by a boyfriend who confirmed that her sexual performance was, ...
... Kenny Gluck , who brought his broad experience and nuanced understanding of political realities to the task ; and Marshall Wallace , who provided excellent editorial and organizational advice , as well as clarification of content .
On the birth of controlled trials and of medical statistics, Stephen R. Bown, Scurvy (Chichester, 2003); P. C. A. Louis, Researches on the Effects of Bloodletting in Some Inflammatory Diseases (Birmingham, Ala., 1986); Andrea A. Rusnock ...