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Malpractice: A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors
By Larry Schlachter and John Bechtel
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An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system looks like” (Patricia J. Skolnik, president, Citizens for Patient Safety, LLC).
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many as 98,000 patients a year were dying due to avoidable medical error. But even more recent research indicates that estimate was, if anything, a drastic understatement of the patient-safety crisis in the US health care system.
In Malpractice, neurosurgeon and attorney Dr. Larry Schlachter demonstrates how most patients enter the system without any idea of the risks they face due to a medical culture that avoids transparency, perpetuates an atmosphere of blind deference to doctors, and protects dangerous doctors from any accountability. Drawing on twenty-three years of experience, Dr. Schlachter recounts unbelievable stories that illustrate the host of risks patients face whenever they seek diagnostic evaluation or go under the knife.
This book brings readers inside the health care citadel, exposing the flawed culture that fuel doctor’s egos and outlining the steps every patent should take to protect himself or herself in “a bitter pill for an industry that for many years has avoided the hardest conversations about patient safety.”—Dr. Michael Dogali, MDCM, FACS, president of Pacific Neurosurgery
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many as 98,000 patients a year were dying due to avoidable medical error. But even more recent research indicates that estimate was, if anything, a drastic understatement of the patient-safety crisis in the US health care system.
In Malpractice, neurosurgeon and attorney Dr. Larry Schlachter demonstrates how most patients enter the system without any idea of the risks they face due to a medical culture that avoids transparency, perpetuates an atmosphere of blind deference to doctors, and protects dangerous doctors from any accountability. Drawing on twenty-three years of experience, Dr. Schlachter recounts unbelievable stories that illustrate the host of risks patients face whenever they seek diagnostic evaluation or go under the knife.
This book brings readers inside the health care citadel, exposing the flawed culture that fuel doctor’s egos and outlining the steps every patent should take to protect himself or herself in “a bitter pill for an industry that for many years has avoided the hardest conversations about patient safety.”—Dr. Michael Dogali, MDCM, FACS, president of Pacific Neurosurgery
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A good book and good to see from the inside out. My primary complaint it, I'm pretty sure most people reading it would already know and agree, thus he's preaching to the choir. The people for whom it should be intended, and to affect change because of it, either won't read it, will discredit it, ignore it or won't care. Because it's all about the money and the people who have the power to make essential changes never will. Which is why this book is interesting but won't change a thing. Not the author's fault. Kudos to him for trying.