miguelf 's review for:

When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri

4.0

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The basic question addressed in this book is whether medical error is as prevalent as is often reported and such a high cause of death. The statistic itself appears controversial as it’s not universally accepted as, say, heart failure or cancer as leading causes of fatality. The author, who is also a medical doctor, takes the reader through two rather heart wrenching cases, one of which was the husband of an ER nurse in which he received substandard care that ultimately wound up in a long medical malpractice suit. Ofri does a good job balancing the human and scientific side of the debate, calling out the over reliance on filling out checkboxes and ENR’s and is open to allowing more technology to enter into practice to counterbalance potential sources of doctor error.