Rage and reconciliation
Subtitle: inspiring a health care revolution
By: edited by Lee Gutkind.
Contributors: Gutkind, Lee.
Series: Medical humanities series
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Medical errors; Medical errors -- Anecdotes; Medical care -- Quality control -- Anecdotes; Medical ethics
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: "In these intense and searing essays, a lawyer describes her seesawing emotions over a misdiagnosis of what she was told was an inoperable tumor; a physician formerly employed by an HMO rails at the accepted practice of managed-care organizations finding legal loopholes to trump a patient's needs; a physician wrestles with the idea of doctors policing themselves, knowing he is powerless to prevent the mistakes of an incompetent colleague."--BOOK JACKET.