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Argues that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine - an experimental and uncertain activity. This collection of the author's personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine chronicles a young scholar's courageous struggle to make sense of a tragic coincidence.
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The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her work
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"Strangely, my knowledge of error has helped me deal with the errors in my care. Had I not known about the prevalence of error in medicine I would not have been able to process what has happened to me without bitterness. But I had thought these matters through already, and more than once. I now live out the complex sorrow I have before described."
—Marianne A. Paget
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- PublisherTemple University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 156639192X
- ISBN 13 9781566391924
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages244
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