Patient Power: How to Protect Yourself from Medical Error
- ISBN-10
- 068481515X
- ISBN-13
- 9780684815152
- Series
- Patient Power
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-07-16
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- William Proctor, Richard N. Podell
Description
Describes a range of medical errors and offers advice for anticipating, preventing, and reversing mistakes
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Other editions
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- 1994
- 134 pages
- Ebook
- Cato Institute
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