Never Go to the Hospital Alone (eBook)

And Other Insider Secrets for Getting Mistake-Free Health Care from Your Doctor and Hospital

Steve Harden, Stephen W. Harden (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
228 Seiten
BPS Books (Verlag)
978-1-926645-21-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This year 176,445 patients in the U.S. will die due to preventable errors, infections, and medication mistakes. This book shows how to pick a great doctor and a great hospital for yourself or your loved ones, and how to be vigilant and prevent the mistakes that plague patient care.

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This year 176,445 patients in the U.S. will die due to preventable errors, infections, and medication mistakes. This book explains the simple steps you must take to avoid being one of them. Safety systems expert Steve Harden shows you how to pick a great doctor and a great hospital for yourself or your loved ones, and how to be vigilant and prevent the mistakes that plague patient care, including wrong surgeries, blood clots after operations, and inaccurate and sometimes deadly prescription errors.This wise and practical book includes such topics as:Secrets for choosing a good doctorNine questions to ask before you go to the hospitalTen keys to taking charge of your health careTen secrets for a safe surgery

Autor

Steven Harden is a former U.S. Navy TOPGUN pilot who is using the stellar safety measures of the U.S. aviation industry to help hospitals and doctors protect their patients by improving their safety results. His health care safety work has been covered by major publications and media outlets, including the New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine, and PBS NewsHour. A Memphis-based author, speaker, and safety consultant, he is the founder and president of Lifewings -- a team of physicians, nurses, pilots, and safety system experts that teaches health care organizations how to eliminate medical mistakes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: ask questions • avoid • avoidance • avoiding • blood clots after operation • blood clots after surgery • choose a good doctor • choosing a good doctor • Errors • great Canadian hospitals • great hospital • great hospitals • great US hospitals • how to pick a great doctor • inaccuracy • inaccurate • Infections • malpractice • medical malpractice • medical mistakes • mistakes • Patient Care • patients • pick a doctor • pick a great doctor • Practical • preventable errors • preventable infections • preventable mistakes • questions to ask • safe surgery • Safety • take charge • taking charge • wise secrets • wrong surgeries • wrong surgery
• ISBN-10: 1-926645-21-9 / 1926645219
• ISBN-13: 978-1-926645-21-6 / 9781926645216