Challenging Operations - Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Zusammenfassung In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. This title takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Kellogg, Katherine C. Kellogg, KELLOGG KATHERINE C
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2011
• EAN: 9780226430027
• ISBN: 978-0-226-43002-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Health systems & services, Health systems and services