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roanfrancis 's review for:
When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error
by Danielle Ofri
Danielle Ofri is one of the best writers on medicine for a non-medical audience. She's a great storyteller and really good at explaining complex things (or boring/banal things—like all the specific ways electronic medical records can hinder medical care by being incredibly annoying and not user friendly). I'm really put off by her bias about "obesity" which was really at the forefront in her last book—for me, it detracts from her credibility as a clinician and scientist.
I mean, this book was really stressful. The takeaway for me was all the ways that the medical system (mostly in the ways it's set up to be driven by profit) makes it difficult—culturally, structurally, logistically—for doctors to do good medicine. And how difficult it is to hold the systems accountable for their failures.
I mean, this book was really stressful. The takeaway for me was all the ways that the medical system (mostly in the ways it's set up to be driven by profit) makes it difficult—culturally, structurally, logistically—for doctors to do good medicine. And how difficult it is to hold the systems accountable for their failures.