medical mistake - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical Errors

Book by Karin Janine Berntsen; Praeger, 2004

Subjects:

Medical Errors--United States--Prevention

Collections: Entire Library

...numerous opportunities for mistakes to occur. Tragically, as this...each year as a result of medical errors, accelerating the death...opinions about what constitutes a medical error or near miss. Minor...events may not be viewed as mistakes, especially if the hospital...
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Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome

Book by Robert E. Adler; Wiley, 2004

Subjects:

Medical Innovations--History--Miscellanea, Medicine--History--Miscellanea

Collections: History, Entire Library

An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present "Always help, or at least do no harm." Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. From the Hippocratic Oath to the human genome, from Pasteur's ...
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An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present "Always help, or at least do no harm." Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. From the Hippocratic Oath to the human genome, from Pasteur's germ theory to the worldwide eradication of smallpox, Medical Firsts brings to life 2,500 years of medical advances and discoveries. Organized chronologically, the book describes each milestone in a vivid capsule history, making it a fascinating and wonderfully readable resource for anyone interested in medicine's past progress and future promise. Robert E. Adler, PhD (Santa Rosa, CA) has worked as a psychologist and science journalist. He writes about a wide variety of scientific and medical topics for New Scientist, Nature, and other publications and is the author of Science Firsts (0-471-40174-9).
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Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises

Book by Richard A. Deyo, Donald L. Patrick; AMACOM, 2005

Subjects:

Medical Care, Cost Of--United States, Medical Care--Technological Innovations--United States--Cost Effectiveness, Medical Care--Technological Innovations--United States--Evaluation, Medical Care--United States--Evaluation, Medical Innovations--Economic Aspects--United States, Medical Innovations--United States--Evaluation, Medical Technology--United States--Cost Effectiveness, Medical Technology--United States--Evaluation

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...science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. -Thomas Szasz, MD...Jose A. Bufill, MD CONSIDER some recent medical breakthroughs reported in the media...Whats going on here? Arent the latest medical advances always the greatest? Dont doctors...
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Disputing Doctors: The Socio-Legal Dynamics of Complaints about Medical Care

Book by Linda Mulcahy; Open University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Complaints (Administrative Procedure)--Great Britain, Dispute Resolution (Law)--Great Britain, Medical Care--Great Britain, Physician And Patient--Great Britain

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...of illness, treatment and mistakes can represent an array of quite...provides one example of how the medical profession has dominated such...failings of medicine and the mistakes made by doctors. In the words...media representations of the medical profession in Australia have...
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Teaching and Learning in Medical and Surgical Education: Lessons Learned for the 21st Century

Book by Linda H. Distlehorst, Gary L. Dunnington, J. Roland Folse; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Subjects:

Medical Education, Surgery--Study And Teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The idea for this book was originally conceived by Terrill Mast in conversations with Roland Folse. Dr. Mast was dedicated to the belief that all medical teachers should be generalists with skills and knowledge in all aspects of the field. Before his untimely death, he recruited most of the ...
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The idea for this book was originally conceived by Terrill Mast in conversations with Roland Folse. Dr. Mast was dedicated to the belief that all medical teachers should be generalists with skills and knowledge in all aspects of the field. Before his untimely death, he recruited most of the prestigious contributors to this important new book. This comprehensive volume features a review of the major topics in medical and surgical education by today's leading authorities in the field. The assembled authors represent a "Who's Who" in medical education around the world. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic along with the projected changes most likely to occur over the next decade. A "must-have" for anyone responsible for educating students, residents, and physicians in the medical and surgical fields, this new book addresses the critical medical educational issues of the next millennium, in one, comprehensive volume.
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A Big Mistake: Eroding the Defense of Mistake of Fact about Consent in Rape

Journal article by Rosanna Cavallaro; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86, 1996

Subjects:

Consent (Law)--Laws, regulations, etc., Mistake (Criminal law)--Laws, regulations, etc., Rape--Evidence

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A big mistake: eroding the defense of mistake of fact about consent in rape. by Rosanna Cavallaro Thirty years ago, for the first time, the defense of mistake of fact(1) emerged as a defense to a charge of rape.(2) Thirty...
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An Empirical Examination of the Equal Protection Challenge to Contingency Fee Restrictions in Medical Malpractice Reform Statutes

Journal article by Casey L. Dwyer; Duke Law Journal, Vol. 56, 2006

Subjects:

Contingency fees--Laws, regulations and rules, Equal protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Equality before the law--Laws, regulations and rules, Limitation of damages--Laws, regulations and rules, Limitations of damages--Laws, regulations and rules, Medical malpractice insurance--Laws, regulations and rules

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...the lawyer, and makes the attorney more likely to accept the lower award cases. (71.) See Christopher H. Schmitt, A Medical Mistake, U.S. NEWS WORLD REP., June 30, 2003, at 24-27 (reporting 2002 data from the Physician Insurers Association of...
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The Future of Medical Marijuana: Should the States Grow Their Own?

Journal article by Alex Kreit; University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, 2003

Subjects:

Federal-state controversies--Political aspects, Interstate commerce--Cases, Medical marijuana--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Craig said that convicting Rosenthal was "the most horrible mistake Ive ever made in my entire life. And I dont think that I personally...opposition after a loss in the Supreme Court on the issue of medical necessity, (25) medical marijuana advocates have turned toward...
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Managed Care's Crimea: Medical Necessity, Therapeutic Benefit, and the Goals of Administrative Process in Health Insurance

Journal article by William M. Sage; Duke Law Journal, Vol. 53, 2003

Subjects:

Health insurance--Laws, regulations and rules, Managed care plans (Medical care)--Laws, regulations and rules, Necessity (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules

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...what may have been a serious mistake. This is troubling for several...et al., When Courts Review Medical Appropriateness, 36 MED. CARE...courts would have to evaluate medical practice in order to determine...fiduciary duty was violated, and medical malpractice litigation should...
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Mistaken Medial Goals and the Misuse of Medical Knowledge

Journal article; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 26, 1996

Subjects:

Medical care utilization, Medical care--Utilization, Medical ethics--Analysis, Medical technology--Ethical aspects

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Mistaken Medial Goals and the Misuse of Medical Knowledge...Social Well-Being as Medical Goals. An important...freedom, it is a mistake to think of such...would no less be a mistake to see total social...the efforts to use medical eugenics to serve...

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MAKE NO MISTAKE!: Medical Errors Can Be Deadly Serious

Magazine article by Tamar Nordenberg; FDA Consumer, Vol. 34, September 2000

Subjects:

Hospitals--Safety and security measures, Medical errors--Statistics

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MAKE NO MISTAKE!: Medical Errors Can Be Deadly Serious...magazine. Based on a recent report on medical mistakes from the National Academy of Sciences...and voluntary reporting of other medical mistakes, including so-called "close calls...
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Blood Simple: In Blocking Access to an New Blood-Testing Kit, the FDA Is Making a Fatal Mistake

Magazine article by Amitai Etzioni; National Review, Vol. 47, February 20, 1995

Subjects:

HIV testing--Innovations, HIV tests--Innovations, Medical tests--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Laws, regulations and rules

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...Access to an New Blood-Testing Kit, the FDA Is Making a Fatal Mistake. by Amitai Etzioni Gay activists were discomfited...sample, which is then mailed to a lab and subjected to the same medical tests as blood collected in the doctors office. Unpersuasive...
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Covering Medical Technology

Magazine article by Trudy Lieberman; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 40, September 2001

Subjects:

Journalistic ethics--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Medical innovations--Media coverage, Medical technology--Media coverage, Patient education--Information services

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...not the only ones failing to disclose conflicts of interest. Medical and scientific journals -- which publish the results of studies...INTERMEDIATE OUTCOME WITH A HEALTH OUTCOME. Too often journalists mistake an intermediate outcome for an ultimate health outcome, which...
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Keeping Medical Devices Safe from Electromagnetic Interference

Magazine article by Rebecca D. Williams; FDA Consumer, Vol. 29, May 1995

Subjects:

Cellular telephones--Standards, Electromagnetic compatibility--Standards, Electromagnetic interference--Prevention, Medical electronics--Protection and preservation, Wireless telephones--Standards

Collections: Entire Library

...winter day." In an effort to investigate EMI problems with medical devices, FDA has already examined a few devices that are especially...very sensitive to electromagnetic waves. The monitors can mistake low levels of modulated electromagnetic waves for breaths...
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Do-It-Yourself Medical Testing

Magazine article by Dixie Farley; FDA Consumer, Vol. 20, February 1986

Subjects:

Medical test kits--Usage, Self examination (Medical)--Equipment and supplies, Self-examination, Medical--Equipment and supplies, United States. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Devices and Radiological Health--Laws, regulations and rules

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...Center for Devices and Radiological Health, which regulates medical devices, requires that devices used by a lay person comply...the inexperienced, untrained user may misinterpret results, a mistake that can be compounded by the fact that no test is 100 percent...

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Doctors Told This Man He Had AIDS and Would Die.Six Years Later They Said to Him: 'Sorry, We Made a Mistake'; THE DREADFUL BLUNDER THAT WILL HEIGHTEN FEARS OVER MEDICAL TESTS

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 21, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Him: Sorry, We Made a Mistake; THE DREADFUL BLUNDER...WILL HEIGHTEN FEARS OVER MEDICAL TESTS. Byline...they could have made a mistake and they said that sort...the person who made the mistake but I dont want revenge...suffering from a faulty medical test. Already this year...
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Did Maddie Witnesses Mistake This Friendof the McCanns for Murat? the Suspect: British Expat Robert Murat the Friend: Medical Researcher David Payne

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 8, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Did Maddie Witnesses Mistake This Friendof the McCanns for...Expat Robert Murat the Friend: Medical Researcher David Payne...confused him with Mr Payne. The medical researcher, who is 41, was...alwayssaid the witnesses were mistaken. He was not there that night...
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NHS Safety Fears as Baby Gets an MMR Jab by Mistake

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 14, 2006

Subjects:

Immunotherapy, Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, Measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, Medical errors

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Gets an MMR Jab by Mistake. Byline: STUART...latest in a string of medical blunders was revealed...the MMR vaccine by mistake was treated at Edinburghs Durham Road Medical Group surgery. GP...was blamed for the mistake but the long-term...Scotlands chief medical officer Harry Burns...
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IT WAS A 'MISTAKE'; Blades' Doctor Backs Kenny on Drug Test Failure

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 8, 2009

Subjects:

Drug testing, Drugs and athletes, Mandatory drug testing, Medical errors

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was guilty of an innocent mistake in taking the drug that...a goalkeeper. Spence, a medical practitioner in Sheffield...the case, Kennys biggest mistake was in acting outside of consultation with his clubs medical staff. Spence, who worked...
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Pounds 1.3M FOR MAN BRAIN DAMAGED IN NOSE OP; Doc's Mistake in Routine Sneezing Cure Left Him Disabled

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 15, 2005

Subjects:

Brain damage, Disabled persons, Medical errors, Office equipment and supplies industry, Office equipment industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The way we were treated was unforgivable. "Everyone makes mistakes. Unfortunately we had a difficult fight to extract this admission...unrelated to the surgery. Mr Rogers was transferred to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham where he spent two weeks being treated...

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Abortion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...trauma. Immunological reactions, in which maternal antibodies mistake the fetus for foreign tissue, have been implicated in recurrent...pregnancy. Induced Abortion Abortion can be induced for medical reasons or because of an elective decision to end the pregnancy...

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