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| Title: | Death on the Learning Curve
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| Author: | Pierce Scranton, MD |
| ISBN: | 1600700144 : 9781600700149 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 329 |
| Weight: | .598 Kg. |
| Published: | Midpoint Trade Books (Elite Books) - January 2006 |
| List Price: | 15.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION |
A hospital operating room may not be as safe as you think it is. Hiding among the sterile scrubs and gleaming instruments of an operating room is a whole lot of high drama: split-second life-and-death decisions. deep questions of ethics. roaring personality conflicts. the glory of saving a life-and the horror when a simple procedure goes terribly wrong. Renowned surgeon Pierce Scranton, Jr. , kept a detailed diary of his internship year at a busy California teaching hospital. This book is a vivid, fictionalised memoir of that year in the trenches. Through the intertwined stories of teachers, students and patients, it explores issues like: What happens when teaching and healing come into conflict? When is a new treatment to prolong life a good idea, and when is it a disaster? How did lawyers and bean-counters get so much power? And when do relationships between doctors and other staff 'go too far?' This honest account is startling and sometimes shocking-but always gripping.
