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050	0	0	_aK4365 _b.M47 2001
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100	1		_aMerry, Alan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aErrors, medicine, and the law / _cAlan Merry and Alexander McCall Smith.
246	3		_aErrors, Medicine & the Law
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2001.
300			_a1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_a1. 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			_aUntoward 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	_aMedical personnel _xMalpractice.
650		0	_aMedical jurisprudence.
700	1		_aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521806312
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806063
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