After the Error : Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives

Robin Wyndham, R.N.,Susan B. McIver, Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 1770411100 / ISBN 13: 9781770411104

Published by ECW Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After the Error : Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770411100
• ISBN 13: 9781770411104
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their harrowing stories has helped to lay the foundation for numerous patient safety programs and continues to identify problems, provide solutions, and raise awareness.

After the Error is a collection of true stories from across Canada, and the first book anywhere to recognize what patients affected by medical errors, their families, and immediate healthcare providers have done to prevent others from enduring similar experiences.

About the Author

Susan McIver holds a Ph.D. in entomology/microbiology, was a professor at the University of Toronto with appointments to the Faculty of Medicine, and a department chair at the University of Guelph. Subsequently, she served as a community coroner in British Columbia. She is also the author of Medical Nightmares: The Human Face of Errors. Robin Wyndham was a registered nurse for 34 years. She worked in neonatal intensive care, surgery, psychiatry and residential care and had a special interest in palliative care. She studied nursing at the Vancouver General Hospital and English at the University of British Columbia.