- ISBN13: 9780226525884
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Demanding Medical Excellence is a groundbreaking and accessible work that reveals how the information revolution is changing the way doctors make decisions. Michael Millenson, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee as a health-care reporter for the Chicago Tribune, illustrates serious flaws in contemporary medical practice and shows ways to improve care and save tens of thousands of lives.
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Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age
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#1 by Anonymous on April 9, 2010 - 1:14 pm
Perhaps the worst text I have ever read. The book is poorly written and painfully dull. Mr. Millenson lack of personality is quite evident, as well as his arrogance.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on April 9, 2010 - 3:11 pm
The Author’s approach set forth in this book is to drown the reader in a sea of useless statistics. The anecdotes provided offer little conclusive proof to support the exalted claims postulated. This book suffers from tunnel vision all the while, it leads the reader down a laborious path of drawn out conclusions. If one were to accept the conclusions set forth in this book, they would be accepting HMOs as their advocate and their doctor as an egotist looking out only for their own needs.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on April 9, 2010 - 3:36 pm
What a wealth of information! And a guided tour of what can and is being done at hospitals and with the medical profession to provide better care and avoid what is termed “iatrogenic” (unplanned results)problems arising from medical care! Anyone who’ll become or was a “subject” for hospital stay or operation can also derive some comfort from the book by being informed as to what is going on beyond the silken curtain of medical care. Worth reading–and keeping on the shelf to re-read from time to time as information contained is timeless. Author has done tremendous research and presents info clearly–and unsensationally.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 9, 2010 - 5:27 pm
The critical issue of health care quality in the United States has been sidelined recently by the debate over HMOs and managed care. That’s understandable with all the changes in our nation’s health care system. But Millenson’s book gives the best written and most comprehensive case to date of why the deeper issue in health care today transcends managed care. The book is about the care we actually get from our doctors and hospitals and nursing homes. It’s about what doctors know and don’t know, what they do well and not so well, what they can do for us but also what they can do that puts us in harms way. This is a sobering account of a problem that affects us all, can be lethal, and clearly needs far more attention from both consumers and our nation’s political leaders.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 9, 2010 - 7:09 pm
The mistakes mentioned by a reviewer below concerning hand-washing and hepatic necrosis were either not present or corrected before the printing of my copy of the book.
Rating: 5 / 5