Anatomy Of Medical Errors: The Patient In Room 2 Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
A surgeon unknowingly damages the intestines of a nurse expecting only an overnight stay after surgery, beginning a chain of more tragic and preventable errors. The consequences result in the nurse spending several weeks on an ICU ventilator in a drug-induced coma, having four additional surgeries, and requiring a pump to drain the raging infection from her open abdomen. As she awakens and tries to come to terms with what happened to her, she realizes the hospital and doctors will never tell her the whole truth; she has to find out what went wrong on her own. In order to heal, she determines to write and share her story so others may learn how infections, adverse events, and medical errors occur frequently in hospitals, sometimes resulting in death. More than a narrative, Anatomy of Medical Errors: The Patient in Room 2 shines light on the dysfunction that underpins many hospital organizations, especially teaching hospitals, including silencing of the patient, provider arrogance, flawed coordination of care, poor communication, and lack of ownership for outcomes. Forever changed by the experience, author Donna Helen Crisp uses her struggles to teach nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals how to prevent or avoid potentially dangerous situations, recognize warning signs, and work collaboratively to provide transparent patient care. This book provides an ethical and critical thought process framework for care providers and others through a compelling story about hospital culture. Readers who want to understand how delivery of care works in fast-paced and complex healthcare environments will come away engaged and informed.
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Sigma Theta Tau International; 1 edition (June 17, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1940446848
ISBN-13: 978-1940446844
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.4 x 8.3 inches
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Having worked as a Utilization Review Coordinator in a for profit psychiatric and substance abuse hospital, I am well aware that many mistakes are made. I am also well aware that when these mistakes are reported to the administration and the medical staff, nothing happens, they don't want to know. Doctors see their patients every day but for some that means they talk to patients for less than 3 minutes and that's it. Administrators continue to control costs by eliminating nurses, technicians, maintenance, housekeeping and other staffing. When staffing is so low, it is impossible to avoid mistakes and errors of omission. Let's try a single payor plan so that the goal is not making money for the stockholders but helping people who are sick. This is a wonderful book and unfortunately extremely representative of what I have seen in my work.
The author perseveres after enduring risky medical procedures resulting in multiple surgical blunders. She escapes death determined to share her experience. Hardened by the insults to her body, her spirit is unbroken. She must inform people about the unintended adverse consequences of surgery. Consider her words carefully. If you were the patient, what information would you want to know? Avoidable medical consequences should not be dismissed as patient bad luck. Patients need to be better advised and provided with the information they need to make informed choices about their medical risks. The first corrective step must be recognizing and changing a medical culture of silence and entrenched arrogance.“Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised? “William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
I couldn't put it down. The author took me on a trip that I hope never to experience outside of my imagination, but it seems the odds are frighteningly high that I could. It's neither "chicken soup for the soul" nor a diatribe, but it is survivor's tale. If the circle of your life intersects with our health care system at any point : student, patient, healer, administrator, this book will do much to steer towards what we all want health care to be and away from the third leading cause of death. You will be given the opportunity to relate to suffering in a way that points towards solutions to the institutional business model's failings within our collective fundamental sense of humanity. Healers and patients want to be on the same side. Give it a chance. Here are the directions. The path is in this very well written, clear and compelling book. kudos to the author. Brona Hicks
Both a frightening and enthralling personal look at what can and has happened in our medical system. A must read for everyone (all of us?) who might one day find ourselves facing a comparable situation.
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