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With America's healthcare system in the midst of upheaval, and with government officials, physicians, and the public-at-large focused as never before on the cost and quality of these vital services, a hidden epidemic-medical malpractice-destroys hundreds of thousands of lives each year and is ignored by the majority of the medical establishment.
Lethal Medicine is the first book to thoroughly examine malpractice, and its author, Harvey F. Wachsman,...
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En este ensayo, el autor describe con total claridad el proceso policial y judicial desde la aprensión del presunto delincuente hasta su liberación, y con algo de cinismo ilustra las graves y endémicas fallas de un sistema judicial uruguayo que niega derechos humanos básicos a los indagados, en una máquina de procesar delitos de toda índole a pasos acelerados, con las cárceles abarrotadas y los juzgados penales trabajando muy por encima de...
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"A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends her free time helping resettle refugees. Their...
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Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a brutal boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.
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Every mob boss needs a hitman. Somebody who will do the dirty job on the mob boss' behalf by threatening, assaulting and if needed killing those, the mob boss wants away.In this shocking world super-exclusive book, we present one of the most famous and active hitmen inside Microsoft. Yes, you read that right! Microsoft does have such people on its rolls because it employs such tactics inside the company to ensure the heads of the company stay powerful...
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This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona. Volkman was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio. His pain...
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The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff-now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue.
When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and potentially devastating, Bosk found that they could be...
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A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn. Rob Barrow's devotion to the American experiment has never wavered. For forty years he has devoted his legal brilliance to advancing the essential American ideals enshrined by the Founders. Rob is the best kind of throwback--a classic American character, reserved and respectful, yet...
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