Book description
Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety.
Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical…
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Why read it?
1 author picked When We Do Harm as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Nobody is perfect. But in medicine, not being perfect can cause injury in another person, or even death.
In When We Do Harm, Ofri tells the stories of patients who fell victim to medical errors, conducting root-cause analyses of how errors occur in the complicated practice of medicine, and the mundane interventions and cultural shift that will be necessary to prevent them in the future.
It’s not an easy puzzle to solve.
From Mikkael's list on The best books that give an insider’s view of the good, bad, beautiful, and ugly in medicine.
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