Derailed - Memoirs of a Botched Hysterectomy: A Story of Undiagnosed Endometriosis
- ISBN-10
- 1884573223
- ISBN-13
- 9781884573224
- Category
- Diagnostic errors
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Aauvi House Publishing Group
- Author
- Jaimi Taylor
Description
How does an outwardly healthy forty-seven-year-old woman's routine hysterectomy become an eighteen-day ordeal spanning two hospitals, four surgeries, and more than $400,000 in medical bills? Derailed is a true story -- one woman's terrifying journey through a seemingly endless comedy of errors, misdiagnosis, and multiple near-death encounters; including cover ups, good doctors protecting bad doctors, and one hospital pitted against another. Endometriosis affects more than nine million women in the US and many more world-wide. Clearly women are still not getting straight talk about endometriosis and the answers they need. This is an important book and the lessons learned through these pages could very well save women's lives. The author has done her homework and includes scores of useful medical facts based upon subsequent research in the areas of fibroids, cysts, endometriosis, blood transfusions, drugs, blood clots, bypass implants, and more. With or without surgery, there is no cure for endometriosis. Get the facts about endometriosis.
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