A Never Event
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0980058287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Everyone's concerns for patient safety should be resolved, reporting systems should be immediately linked and swift action should be encouraged to protect all patients. McKnight's efforts and her own harrowing account have helped to bring important attention to the root causes of these avoidable tragedies. --Joe Hardy, MD Nevada State AssemblyThis is a 'must-read' for hospital and clinic administrators, providers and especially patients. It is up to each of us in our respective roles to proactively ass
J. Barnes said Indie Book Award Finalist!. This title was a selection for my book group, and I approached reading it with dread that it would be so steeped in medical jargon that I would get lost. This is definitely not the case. The authors used just the right blend of medical facts with the humanit. Doctor S said Gripping and suspenseful. I just finished reading A Never Event, by McKnight and Bennington. It's a gripping and suspenseful account of human error--in healthcare, in the legal system. Because of the clarity of narration, giving you the impression all along with way that you are ther. A true and fascinating story This book is a must read for patients, healthcare workers, healthcare administrators and anyone else who loves an excellent true story. This will force you be certain that if you are a healthcare worker,you will always be sure you do the right thing, and if
Travis Bennington is a practicing civil trial attorney who successfully represented nineteen victims of the Nebraska hepatitis C tragedy. . Using the money from her settlement against the oncology clinic, she founded the patient advocacy foundation HONOReform, which has been recognized by CBS, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, American Morning, USA Today, The Associated Press and Newsday. Bennington is also a co-founder of HONOReform. Evelyn McKnight, a two-time survi
It s a story of recklessness, deception and betrayal by the person these patients should have been able to trust the most: their physician, a man who, when the outbreak was discovered, fled the US for his native country in the Middle East. During chemotherapy treatments, 857 patients who were already waging the fights of their lives against cancer were inexplicably exposed to the deadly, blood-borne hepatitis C virus. A Never Event - a term used to describe a preventable medical tragedy - is a searing account of the health challenges these patients encountered and their quest for justice, as well as the painstaking investigation to uncover the source of the outbreak. But the fanfare soon turned into a nightmare. Written by a survivor of the tragedy and an attorney who represented many of the victims, A Never Event is a wake-up call to medical and legal communities nationwide.. In the small, farming community of Fremont, Nebraska, townspeople eagerly welcomed an acclaimed doctor as the first full-time oncologist at the new, local cancer treatment center. At least ninety-nine of them contracted the lethal illness. The horror was unprecedented as this was the largest healthcare-transmitted outbreak of hepatitis C in American history, and remains so to this date