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Présentation de l'éditeur
A SURGEON-PROFESSOR dramatizes tragic case histories to teach his medical students how to "Do No Harm" and avoid being sued for malpractice when they become doctors. Part memoir, part expose, BITTER MEDICINE (175 pages, 92,800 words) lets the reader "learn from the dead" in an anatomy laboratory, respond to "a sudden cry for help" in a hospital emergency room, and follow students as they discover how easy it is to maim and kill patients in an operating room.
"THANKS TO LAWYERS who consulted me," writes Dr. Kessler, "I've amassed a large file of the medical records. They proved to be effective teaching tools. I found that students retain more from studying medical disasters than perfectly executed procedures. Why? Happy outcomes can be boring. Catastrophes are unforgettable. I hope the cases I've discussed with my students will help readers make up their own minds about medical malpractice, health care reform, socialized medicine and other political footballs that are being tossed around today.
"SOME AMERICANS have been persuaded by politicians and pundits that most medical malpractice lawsuits are 'frivolous'–that they are without merit. If that were true, I'd have had a hard time finding the cases I’ve presented in my classes and seminars. I did not. No deep research was required. I didn’t have to go looking for horror stories. They came looking for me."
RICHARD KESSLER, M.D., F.A.C.S., retired from the practice of medicine after more than 30 years as a surgeon at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Manhattan and a full professor at the NYU Medical School where he taught surgery and still teaches anatomy. In BITTER MEDICINE, he tells what he's learned first-hand as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. Army doctor, teacher, researcher and expert witness.
PATRICK TRESE was an original member of the "Huntley-Brinkley Report." In his 30 years with NBC News, his awards included a Peabody and several Emmys. Holt, Rinehart & Winston published his book about his assignments in Antarctica covering DEEPFREEZE II & III, Penguins Have Square Eyes, in 1962. He will soon e-publish his novel, AMDG: An Ignatian Thriller.
Biographie de l'auteur
RICHARD KESSLER, M.D., F.A.C.S., retired from the practice of medicine in 1995 after more than 30 years as a surgeon at the VA Hospital in Manhattan. He was also an attending surgeon at Bellevue Hospital. As a full professor at the NYU Medical School, he taught surgery and anatomy. After college, Dick Kessler spent a post-graduate year studying anatomy at the University of Toronto with Dr. J.C. Boileau Grant, a leading 20th Century anatomists whose "Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy" is still a required text. Upon entering the medical school of McGill University in Montreal, he was asked to teach anatomy to his classmates because of his 400 hours of instruction from Dr. Grant. Though retired from the practice of medicine, he still teaches anatomy to first-year medical students at NYU. During his career, Dr. Kessler published 60 articles and abstracts in peer review journals, but he wanted this book to be read by people with no medical training. "Because of the confusion caused by the on-going debate about health care reform," he told his co-author, “I feel an obligation to tell what I have seen, heard, and learned first-hand over half-a-century as a medical student, an intern, a resident, a practicing physician, a general surgeon, a U.S. Army doctor, a teacher, a researcher and an expert witness in medical malpractice law suits.” Co-author PATRICK TRESE has been writing professionally since college, mostly network news and documentaries for NBC News where he learned to translate complicated legal, political and scientific language into plain, readable English. During his 30 years at NBC, his writing and producing awards included a Peabody and several Emmys. His book about covering DEEP FREEZE II & III in Antarctica, "Penguins Have Square Eyes", was published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1962. Caril, the story of Caril Ann Fugate, who became involved with mass-murderer Charles Starkweather and was convicted of first degree murder at age 15, was published by Lippincott in 1972. It was based on his NBC News documentary "Growing Up in Prison." He will soon publish a novel, "AMDG: An Ignatian Thriller".
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