Deadly Errors - Hardcover

Wyler, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765313111 ISBN 13: 9780765313119

Verlag: Forge Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Brain surgeon Allen Wyler has written a thriller on the bleeding edge of new-millennium hospital technology.

When a brain surgeon discovers that a revolutionary computerized medical-records system is responsible for a series of patient deaths---and threatens many more---he must navigate a treacherous maze of conspiracy. And risk his life to expose it.

* A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the Emergency Room---even though he isn't diabetic.

* An ulcer patient dies of hemolytic shock after receiving a transfusion---of the wrong blood type.

* A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of the same medication---triggering a fatal cardiac arrest.

When the doctors and nurses at Seattle's prestigious Maynard Medical Center start making preventable drug and treatment errors that kill their patients, neurosurgeon Dr. Tyler Mathews suspects that something is murderously wrong with the hospital's highly touted new "Med-InDx" electronic medical record. But when he airs his concerns to the hospital's upper management, he's met with stonewalling, skepticism---and threats.

Millions of dollars, and the future of Med-InDx, are at stake. And powerful corporate forces aren't about to let their potential profits evaporate. Tyler soon finds that his career, his marriage, and his very life are in jeopardy---along with the lives of countless innocent patients.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Allen Wyler is an internationally renowned brain surgeon with over thirty years of experience and is recognized for his pioneering work in the field of neurosurgery. He is currently medical director of Northstar Neuroscience, a biotech firm in Seattle, Washington.

Aus dem Klappentext

"Wyler's sense of the worlds of the hospital and operating room are unsurpassed. You'll feel as if you are right there." Michael Palmer, author of The Society

"Deadly Errors is a wild and satisfying ride! This is an up all night pass into troubled places that only hard-working doctors know about, a turbulent world of trusting patients and imperfect humans struggling with the required image of perfection. Only a gifted surgeon like Allen Wyler could craft such a wild and wonderful best-of-the-breed medical thriller!" John J. Nance, author of Pandora s Clock and Fire Flight

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forge Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0765313111
• ISBN 13: 9780765313119
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar