Wrongful death : a medical tragedy /
"On February 10, 1991, Elliot Gilbert, a sixty-year-old professor of English, checked into a major medical center for routine prostate surgery ... As [the author] examines the bewildering complexity of the legal, social, and medical questions surrounding 'adverse events' like the one...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c1995.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | "On February 10, 1991, Elliot Gilbert, a sixty-year-old professor of English, checked into a major medical center for routine prostate surgery ... As [the author] examines the bewildering complexity of the legal, social, and medical questions surrounding 'adverse events' like the one that killed her husband, Gilbert shows how vulnerable we all are to the power of the health-care establishment"--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 364 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-364). |
| ISBN: | 0393037215 |