Bitter Medicine: What I've Learned and Teach about Malpractice Lawsuits (And How to Avoid Them)

by Richard E. Kessler and Patrick Trese

Dr. Richard Kessler tells what he's learned as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. Army doctor, teacher, researcher and expert witness. This surgeon-professor dramatizes how he's used tragic malpractice case histories as teaching tools - showing medical students how to "Do No Harm" by avoiding preventable human errors and fatal mistakes. "Some Americans," he writes, "have been persuaded that most medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468057472
• ISBN13: 9781468057478
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"