LEADER 02823nam 22005292 450 001 9910454958503321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a0-511-80606-X 010 $a0-511-15353-8 010 $a0-511-01630-1 035 $a(CKB)111056485654724 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000149042 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147854 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149042 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10236354 035 $a(PQKB)10757315 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511806063 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004528 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485654724 100 $a20101021d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aErrors, medicine, and the law /$fAlan Merry and Alexander McCall Smith$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-00088-2 311 $a0-521-80631-3 327 $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. 330 $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. 517 3 $aErrors, Medicine & the Law 606 $aMedical personnel$xMalpractice 606 $aMedical jurisprudence 615 0$aMedical personnel$xMalpractice. 615 0$aMedical jurisprudence. 676 $a344/.0411 700 $aMerry$b Alan$0570194 702 $aMcCall Smith$b Alexander$f1948- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454958503321 996 $aErrors, medicine, and the law$92478467 997 $aUNINA