The Book of Medical Mistakes: Real-Life Accounts of the Most Horrific Medical Disasters

by Martin Fido

This book is a unique collection of heart-rendering true-life stories. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185868854X
• ISBN13: 9781858688541
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

I Really Enjoyed this one!

OK, the writing can get a bit flippant, and there are lots of typos! Still, for a nifty exploration of some really seriously bad medical errors, this is a fine read! Starting out with the thalidimide babies of the early 1960's, some really creepy stuff, and the lives of some of these individuals laters,moving on to cosmetic surgery mishaps, cases of poorly written and misread perscriptions, operations on the wrong part of the body, the Dalkon Shield disaster, and very weird medical ideas over the ages, the short mistreatments related here are cause for concern, and may provide a little numbness as you plow through. So for someone near illiterate in medicine and pharmacy, this is a bizarre and sometime frightening book!