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OverviewIn a time when standards are being applied to everything from the manufacturing of your car to the management of your portfolio, it is hard to imagine that your health and well-being are in the hands of men and women who follow no professional standards. When your life is at risk, such standards may mean the difference between proper care and malpractice. In a series of truthful-and shocking-accounts detailing the failures of doctors to properly care for their patients, Dr. Bernard J. Sussman, a professor of neurosurgery, passionately argues for the necessity of implementing standards for the medical profession to prevent the dire consequences of reckless and negligent medical practices. Such standards will assure patients the high level of medical care which Sussman insists we all deserve. Dr. Sussman places much of the blame for the deaths and injuries described in Pupils on a medical system that reinforces behaviors which border on irresponsibility and, most importantly, on doctors who are not held accountable for their decisions. Pupils will open your eyes to the risks you take as a patient while your doctors, quite free to act entirely on their individual discretion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M Sussman , James H ScheuerPublisher: Bartleby Press Imprint: Bartleby Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780910155496ISBN 10: 0910155496 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 April 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBernard Sussman, M.D. was a noted neurologist and also the author of the four novels known as the ""Adam Quatrology."" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |