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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Compliance Resources > After Harm: Medical Error & the Ethics of Forgiveness After Harm: Medical Error and
the Ethics of Forgiveness Clothbound: 176 pages
Softbound: 176 pages
Medical error is a leading problem of health care in the United
States. Each year, more patients die as a result of medical mistakes
than are killed by motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.
While most government and regulatory efforts are directed toward
reducing and preventing errors, the actions that should follow the
injury or death of a patient are still hotly debated. According to
Nancy Berlinger, conversations on patient safety are missing several
important components: religious voices, traditions, and models. In After Harm, Dr. Berlinger draws on sources in theology,
ethics, religion, and culture to create a practical and
comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of patients,
families, and clinicians affected by medical error. She emphasizes
the importance of acknowledging fallibility, telling the truth,
confronting feelings of guilt and shame, and providing just
compensation. After Harm adds important human dimensions to
an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care
providers. "Thoughtful and well-researched." -- Gregory M. Lamb, Chicago
Sun-Times "In an environment in which the aftermath of medical harm is
characterized by adversarial relationships and self-protective
maneuvering, Berlinger's proposals offer an alternative that
ultimately better serves patients, families, clinicians, and
health-care institutions. After Harm has much to offer
students, educators, administrators, and policymakers." -
Literature and Medicine "Forgiveness on the part of an injured patient, or the family if
the patient has died, comes as a result of both words and actions on
the part of doctors and hospitals, says Nancy Berlinger in her
thoughtful and well-researched book." - Christian Science Monitor
"Provides a valuable counterbalance to innumerable calls for
systemic reforms to reduce medical error." - British Medical
Journal" "Dr. Berlinger's thoughtful and graceful work offers reflection
on aspects of heath care, ethics and faith in ways both necessary
and new. Her work provides a critique of bioethics and a challenge
for the sort of conversations we need to move forward." - Laurie
Zoloth, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine If you are interested in policy
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