Slippery Slope of Healthcare - Why Bad Things Happen to Healthy Patients and How to Avoid Them

A slippery slope describes how events progress from an initially innocent step to a cascade of subsequent misfortunes that are increasingly inevitable, difficult to stop, and more harmful than the last. In the attempt to improve what is already just fine, patients can unknowingly find themselves on this slope. This book shows them how to avoid it.

About the author

By Steven Z. Kussin

Summary

Every hour, thousands slip from a comfortable and healthy status to an arm-flailing, knee-buckling, body-spiraling, face-to-the-floor catastrophe.  The book addresses this quick but preventable spiraling of good health into medical disaster.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Z. Kussin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781538121627
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2162-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Martial arts, self-defence; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, Familie und Gesundheit, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, HEALTH & FITNESS / Safety, Consumer Health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Longevity, Popular medicine & health, United States of America, USA, Popular medicine and health, Health systems & services, Health systems and services