The Truth About Big Medicine : Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
ISBN-13: 9781442231603
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: The Empowered Patient, John T. James, PhD, DABT, and Cheryl L. Brown, DBA, RN; title: 1. The Failure of State Medical Boards to Protect the Public, Yanling Yu, PhD; title: 2. Secrets of the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Failure of Medical Licensing Boards, Hospitals, and the Legal System to Protect the Public from Dangerous Physicians, Robert E. Oshel, PhD; title: 3. Failures and Successes of Physician Peer and Performance Review, Gerald Rogan, MD; title: 4. Dangerous Medical Devices, John T. James, PhD, and Stephen S. Tower, MD; title: 5. A Contemporary Review of Health Care-Associated Infections, Daniel M. Saman, DrPH, MPH, CPH; title: 6. Oversight of Physician Offices: Dr. Welby or Dr. Applebee?, Evelyn V. McKnight, AuD; title: 7. Prescription Drugs—To Heal and to Harm, John T. James, PhD, DABT; title: 8. After the Harm: Apology, Disclosure, and Trust, Cheryl Brown, DBA, RN; title: 9. The Consumer Advocates Who Kicked the Hospital-Infection Nest, Lisa McGiffert, Director, Consumers Union Safe Patient Project; title: 10. Medical Guidelines and Informed Consent—Routes to Safer Medical Care, Denise Lasater, DBA, RN; Cheryl Brown, DBA, RN; and John; title: T. James, PhD; title: 11. Medical Imaging: Does It Help?, Kiran Sagar, MD, FAHA, FACC; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Contributors