The Naked Surgeon: the power and peril of transparency in medicine - Couverture souple

Nashef, Samer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 192522869X ISBN 13 : 9781925228694

Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2016

Synopsis

The power and peril of transparency in medicine. From one of the world's leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care comes this unclothing of the medical profession to demonstrate manr revelations, such as the paradox at the heart of the cardiac surgeon's craft: the more an operation is likely to kill you, the better it is for you.

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À propos de l?auteur

Samer Nashef qualified as a doctor at the University of Bristol in 1980. He is a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, and a world-leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care. He is the creator of EuroSCORE, which calculates the predicted risk of death from heart operations and is the most successful risk model in medicine, used worldwide and credited with saving tens of thousands of lives. The author of more than 200 publications, his research has been widely cited and he has been invited to lecture in more than 30 countries. As clinical tutor at the University of Cambridge, he is also a dedicated teacher and public communicator, having appeared in NHS Direct videos, at the Wellcome Foundation and in Channel 4 s 'The Operation'. He is also a regular compiler of cryptic crosswords for the Guardian and Financial Times under a pseudonym.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Publications
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 192522869X
• ISBN 13: 9781925228694
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible