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BL
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952984
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b707354
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Merry, Alan.
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| Title & Author
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Errors, medicine, and the law /\ Alan Merry and Alexander McCall Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2001.
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1 online resource (vi, 254 pages)
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0511016301
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: 0511153538
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: 051180606X
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: 0521000882
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: 0521806313
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: 9780511016301
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: 9780511153532
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: 9780511806063
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: 9780521000888
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: 9780521806312
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0521000882
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0521806313
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Accidents -- 2. The human factor -- 3. Errors -- 4. Violations -- 5. Negligence, recklessness and blame -- 6. The standard of care -- 7. Assessing the standard -- the role of the expert witness -- 8. Beyond blame: responding to the needs of the injured.
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| Abstract
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Untoward injuries are unacceptably common in medical treatment, at times with tragic consequences for patients. The phrases 'an epidemic of error' and 'the medical toll' have been coined to describe this problem of 'iatrogenic harm', which it has been suggested may have contributed to 98,000 deaths per year in the US. Some of these incidents are the result of negligence on the part of doctors, but more usually they are no more than inevitable concomitants of the complexity of modern healthcare. This book is fundamentally about distinguishing the former from the latter. Although medicine is used as the book's primary example, the points made apply equally to aviation, industrial activities, and many other fields of human endeavour. The book advocates a more informed alternative to the blaming culture which has increasingly come to dominate our response to accidents, whether in the medical field or elsewhere.
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Medical jurisprudence.
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Medical personnel-- Malpractice.
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LAW-- Medical Law Legislation.
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Law, General Comparative.
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Law, Politics Government.
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Medical jurisprudence.
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Medical personnel-- Malpractice.
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Medical Errors-- legislation jurisprudence.
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Fouten.
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Gezondheidsrecht.
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Schuld.
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Liability, Legal.
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Malpractice-- legislation jurisprudence.
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Medical Errors-- prevention control.
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Quality of Health Care-- standards.
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| Dewey Classification
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344/.0411
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| LC Classification
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K4365.M47 2001eb
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| NLM classification
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WB 33.1M573e 2001
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| Added Entry
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McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-
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