Medical Blunders

by Robert M. Youngson and Ian Schott

Book Overview

A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854872591
• ISBN13: 9781854872593
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Doctor, Doctor, I Feel Like I Should Run Away

I picked this book up as a birthday present not long after we had a bit of an incident in a local hospital, involving a 17cm pair of scissors being left inside some poor woman after surgery. Bet there's a scrub nurse going around saying "Scissors... Scissors..." somewhere!Youngson and Schott have put together a very interesting and, let's face it, pretty damning picture of the medical profession, in ancient, mediaeval and recent times. It starts with a review of the high-technology wizardry that has been flogged off over the years, and moves through a variety of strange and often sickening stories. Some of these stories - like the concept of 'Blue Light Healing" - are just plain weird and quite funny, whilst others - like the stories of lobotomy and the thalidomide tragedy - are quite depressing.I'm a medical student. Whilst reading this didn't exactly put me off my course, it certainly gives pause for thought. Not a light read, but very, very interesting.