Death By Prescription

Author : Ray Strand
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418514888
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death By Prescription written by Ray Strand and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2006-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced family doctor Ray Strand writes his patients prescriptions every week, but he also believes that prescribing drugs should be a last resort in most medical cases-not a first choice. In Death by Prescription he provides simple guidelines to help readers protect themselves and their families from suffering adverse reactions to prescription medication.

Author : Terence H. Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889629615
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death by Prescription written by Terence H. Young and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDUSTRY & INDUSTRIAL STUDIES. Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston get the headlines, but there are thousands of other people who suffer and die because of the wrong prescription. This is one harrowing story about a father, a family, a daughter. After fifteen years of Vanessa taking Prepulsid to alleviate a stomach disorder, suddenly, unexpectedly, she collapsed and died in her family home. Confusion, grief, and remorse are channeled by Terence Young into determination to get to the root causes of his daughter's death. His investigations take him from Health Canada to the Corner's Office, from the salespeople of major drug manufacturers to the medical profession, from the legal profession to the courts.

Author : Richard L. Mabry, M.D.
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426726228
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagnosis Death written by Richard L. Mabry, M.D. and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her comatose husband died in the ICU while on life support, the whispers about Dr. Allison Williams began. Another death during her training puts her under suspicion. When the pattern is repeated in the hospital where she is attempting to start over, the whispers turn into a shout: “mercy killing.” What is the dark secret that keeps Allison’s lips sealed when she should be defending herself? Despite her move to a new city, the midnight phone calls that started after her husband’s death follow Allison. Who is the woman who sobs out, “I know what you did?” What does she mean by “You’ll pay?” And what can Allison do to prevent it? Two physicians, widowers themselves, offer support, telling Allison they know what she is going through after the death of her husband. But do they? And is it safe to trust either of them with her secret?

Author : Donald Light
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231146922
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Risks of Prescription Drugs written by Donald Light and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raises key questions about topics in the pharmaceutical industry, including how the risks of side effects are weighed, if privatization of that risk is prudent, and the high prices for drugs.

Author : Jack Kevorkian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879756772
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription--medicide written by Jack Kevorkian and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid, sober, humane discussion of planned death and its potential impact on organ harvesting and medical experimentation, by the iconoclastic doctor who invented the "suicide machine" and who made headlines in June of 1990 when he aided Janet Adkins in performing the first publicly acknowledged physician-assisted suicide. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Arabella Melville
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780812828894
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cured to Death written by Arabella Melville and published by Stein & Day Pub. This book was released on 1983 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the international pharmaceutical industry discusses the uses and abuses of prescription drugs and details the dangers and adverse impact of disease treatment with drugs

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309068371
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine

Author : Barry Meier
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 9781579546380
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pain Killer written by Barry Meier and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines OxyContin, the so-called miracle prescription drug that swept the nation but led to overdoes and addiction, providing a look at the multi-billion-dollar pain managment business, its excesses and its abuses.

Author : Thomas J. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription for Disaster written by Thomas J. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hard-hitting expose does for prescription drugs what "Silent Spring" did for pesticides, revealing the hidden dangers of the most commonly prescribed medications--and what the consumer can do to minimize the risks of serious side effects.

Author : Ray D. Strand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178092355
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death By Prescription written by Ray D. Strand and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year there are more than two million hospital admissions due solely to adverse drug reactions, and 180,000 of them result death. When the medication approved for the general public use, less than half of the serious drug reactions are known. In Death by Prescription, Dr.Ray Strand provides simple guidelines to help you protect you and your family from suffering adverse reactions to prescription medication.