The Naked Surgeon: The Power and Peril of Transparency in Medicine - Softcover

Nashef, Samer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192522869X ISBN 13: 9781925228694

Verlag: Scribe Publications, 2016

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As a medical student, Samer Nashef was unofficially blacklisted when he started asking questions about the death rates of more senior surgeons. Since then, he has made his name challenging colleagues to be more open and accurate about the success of the procedures they perform. In The Naked Surgeon, Nashef unclothes his own profession, offering an unprecedented and often controversial view inside the operating theatre. He explains how surgeons can 'game' the system to make their results appear better; why the way a surgeon ties the knot in a single stitch could make a life-or-death difference; and why patients operated on the day before a surgeon goes on holiday are twice as likely to die than those operated on during that surgeon's first day back. Full of eye-opening revelations about the cardiac surgeon's craft, The Naked Surgeon is necessary reading for anybody considering medical intervention now, or in the future.

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Samer Nashef qualified as a doctor at the University of Bristol in 1980 and is a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He is a dedicated teacher and communicator and is recognised as a world-leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care. He is the author of The Naked Surgeon and a compiler of cryptic crosswords for The Guardian and the Financial Times.

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The power and peril of transparency in medicine. From one of the world's leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care comes this unclothing of the medical profession to demonstrate manr revelations, such as the paradox at the heart of the cardiac surgeon's craft: the more an operation is likely to kill you, the better it is for you.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Scribe Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 192522869X
• ISBN 13: 9781925228694
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 209
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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