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Closing Death's Door - Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm (Hardcover)
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Closing Death's Door - Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm (Hardcover)
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After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in
the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or
infection caused by a healer). Research suggests that avoidable
errors claim several hundred thousand lives every year. The
principal economic counterforce to such errors, malpractice
litigation, has never been a particularly effective deterrent for a
host of reasons, with fewer than 3% of negligently injured patients
(or their families) receiving any compensation from a doctor or
hospital's insurer. Closing Death's Door brings the psychology of
decision making together with the law to explore ways to improve
patient safety and reduce iatrogenic injury, when neither the
healthcare industry itself nor the legal system has made a
substantial dent in the problem. Beginning with an unflinching
introduction to the problem of patient safety, the authors go on to
define iatrogenic injury and its scope, shedding light on the
culture and structure of a healthcare industry that has failed to
effectively address the problem-and indeed that has influenced
legislation to weaken existing legal protections and impede the
adoption of potentially promising reforms. Examining the weak
points in existing systems with an eye to using law to more
effectively bring about improvement, the authors conclude by
offering a set of ideas intended to start a conversation that will
lead to new legal policies that lower the risk of harm to patients.
Closing Death's Door is brought to vivid life by the stories of
individuals and groups that have played leading roles in the
nation's struggle with iatrogenic injury, and is essential reading
for medical and legal professionals, as well as lawmakers and
laypeople with an interest in healthcare policy.
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