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A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself. In Medical Blunders, Robert M. Youngson and Ian Schott have written the definitive account of medical mishap in modern and not-so- modern times.
Youngson and Schott cover the gamut of medical accidents, from famous quacks to curious forms of sexual healing, from blunders with the brain to drugs worse than the diseases they are intended to treat. In Medical Blunders, we find shamefully dangerous doctors, human guinea pigs, masturbation treated as a disease requiring treatment, and the legendary surgeon who was himself a craven morphine addict. The resulting picture is one which depicts medical mistakes that are incredible, misguided, arrogant, cruel, or stupendously wrong-headed.
Exploring the line between the comical and the tragic, the honest mistake and the intentional crime, Medical Blunders illustrates once and for all that doctors are subject to the same political, social, historical, and personal pressures as the rest of humanity.
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A collaboration between a highly experienced doctor and a professional journalist, this book is the definitive account of virtually every medical mishap and scandal of the past two hundred years. Learn the horrifying secrets of the medical profession as this book reveals the scandalous stories of healing gone wrong.
About the Author
Robert M. Youngson is a doctor and medical writer whose books include The Guinness Encyclopedia of the Human Being.
Ian Schott is a writer, journalist, and obituarist. They both reside in England.
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- PublisherNYU Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0814796788
- ISBN 13 9780814796788
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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