Anatomy of medical errors : the patient in room 2 : a nurse's story of surviving preventable medical errors and discovering the truth /
A surgeon unknowingly damages the intestines of a nurse expecting only an overnight stay after surgery, beginning a chain of more tragic and preventable errors. The consequences result in the nurse spending several weeks on an ICU ventilator in a drug-induced coma, having four additional surgeries,...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis, IN :
Sigma Theta Tau International,
[2017]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Provenance
- Whose body is it?
- The surgery
- And so, things fall apart
- Fighting to hold on
- Locked inside myself
- Returning from the voide
- Awakening
- Body as backdrop
- Tolerating uncertainty
- Homecoming
- Life in a damaged body
- Family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues
- Truth
- Living in fear
- Facing death again
- The power of suffering
- The suffering of others
- The person inside the patient
- Verisimilitude
- No one is safe when there is silence
- Justice
- A better future.