Dr. Richard Kessler tells what he's learned as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. Army doctor, teacher, researcher and expert witness. This surgeon-professor dramatizes how he's used tragic malpractice case histories as teaching tools - showing medical students how to "Do No Harm" by avoiding preventable human errors and fatal mistakes. "Some Americans," he writes, "have been persuaded that most medical malpractice lawsuits are 'frivolous'-that they are without merit. If that were true, I would have had a hard time finding the cases I presented in...
Dr. Richard Kessler tells what he's learned as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. Army doctor, teacher, ...