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Errors, medicine, and the law / (Record no. 522576)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field CR9780511806063
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field UkCbUP
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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006 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--ADDITIONAL MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780511806063 (ebook)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780521806312 (hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780521000888 (paperback)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency UkCbUP
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency UkCbUP
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number K4365
Item number .M47 2001
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 344/.0411
Edition number 21
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Merry, Alan,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Errors, medicine, and the law /
Statement of responsibility, etc Alan Merry and Alexander McCall Smith.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Errors, Medicine & the Law
264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R)
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) Cambridge :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) Cambridge University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2001.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) :
Other physical details digital, PDF file(s).
336 ## - Content Type (R)
Content type term (R) text
Content type code (R) txt
Source (NR) rdacontent
337 ## - Media Type (R)
Media type term (R) computer
Media type code (R) c
Source (NR) rdamedia
338 ## - Carrier Type (R)
Carrier type term (R) online resource
Carrier type code (R) cr
Source (NR) rdacarrier
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical personnel
General subdivision Malpractice.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical jurisprudence.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McCall Smith, Alexander,
Dates associated with a name 1948-
Relator term author.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Print version:
International Standard Book Number 9780521806312
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806063">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806063</a>

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