Subjects:  1. Cross examination    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Malpractice    4. Medical    5. Medical Law & Legislation    6. Orthopedic disability evaluati    7. Orthopedic disability evaluation    8. Orthopedics    9. Orthopedists    10. Law as it applies to other professions    11. Medicolegal issues    12. Orthopaedics & fractures   

Editorial Review

Sixty-year-old Elliot Gilbert died mysteriously within twenty-four hours of checking into a hospital for routine prostate surgery. Read more

Reviews (7)

She's a poet and very good with words
It was negligence, or the university regents would not have paid the settlement.I've not reviewed a book here before, but wanted to counter some of the unfair reviews I just read.We know this kind of thing happens sometimes.She lost the love of her life, and their children lost their father.Ms. Gilbert needed to write this, and it is well worth reading.It is, however, very sad.

Insight
This book accurately reflects the emotions and disorientation experienced by the loved ones of a patient who suffers a sudden, unexpected and - at least in their belief - preventable death. I'm not going to debate the medical merits with the first reviewer, no doubt a physician. But after 20 years of representing malpractice victims in legal proceedings, I can say it truly reflects their pain and their motivation in seeking legal counsel in a death case:A desire for information, honesty and validation.The book also addresses how the legal system can be a crud tool for achieving those goals - but the only tool they have.

Wrongful Conclusions
Sandra Gilbert's poignant tale of her 60 year old husband's death after prostate cancer surgery is marred by her universally distorted portrayal of his doctors at the UC Davis University Hospital, where he died in 1991.While she freely and repeatedly demonstrates her ignorance and lack of sophistication regarding the medical issues involved in her husband's case, that doesn't stop her from treating her misunderstandings and fantasies as reality.From her point of view, you would think that her husband's physicians were callous monsters, who didn't care if he lived or died. The truth is far less nefarious, though probably for her, less satisfying. Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied health personnel    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Consumer Health    4. General    5. Gilbert, Elliot L    6. Health Care Issues    7. Malpractice    8. Medical personnel    9. American English    10. Biography: general    11. Coping with death & bereavement   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. Law    3. Malpractice    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medical Law & Legislation    7. Medical Malpractice    8. Medical personnel    9. Physical therapists    10. United States    11. Health systems & services    12. Law as it applies to other professions    13. Medicolegal issues    14. Torts / delicts    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Litigation    4. Malpractice    5. Neonatologists    6. Obstetricians    7. United States    8. Gynaecology & obstetrics    9. Torts / delicts    10. USA   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Malpractice    3. Medical care    4. Medicine    5. Physicians    6. Practice    7. Practice Of Medicine    8. Law as it applies to other professions    9. Medical ethics    10. Medicolegal issues   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Drugs    3. Health    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Malpractice    8. Medical Law & Legislation    9. Products liability    10. Trial practice    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Emergency Medicine    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Malpractice    5. Medical    6. Standards    7. United States    8. legislation    9. Medicine: General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. General    3. Health Insurance    4. Insurance, Malpractice    5. Law    6. Liability insurance claims    7. Malpractice    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medical Malpractice    10. Physicians    11. Practice Management & Reimbursement    12. Public Health    13. United States    14. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    15. Medical / Public Health    16. Medicolegal issues    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Legal Reference / Law Profession    2. Malpractice   

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues    2. Health/Fitness    3. Law / Malpractice    4. Malpractice    5. Medical personnel    6. United States    7. Health Care Issues    8. Nonfiction   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Malpractice   

Reviews (1)

Head Trauma Cases
Use this work for the practical distillation of the anatomy and biomechanics of closed-head injury, associated physical and psychiatric disorders, treatment and vocational assessment, and case-handling tips for plaintiff and defense counsel. This gives you the detailed medical knowledge you need to understand the injury -- its causes and physical mechanics. It also covers the legal techniques and cases to evaluate and successfully try or settle closed-head injury cases ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Head    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Malpractice    4. Medical jurisprudence    5. Personal injuries    6. Reference    7. Trial practice    8. United States    9. Jurisprudence & General Issues    10. Torts / delicts    11. USA   

Features

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Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Occupational Therapy    2. Great Britain    3. Law and legislation    4. Legal status, laws, etc    5. Legal status, laws, etc.    6. Malpractice    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medical Law & Legislation    10. Occupational & Industrial Medicine    11. Occupational therapists    12. Occupational therapy    13. Medical / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy    14. Medicolegal issues   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Malpractice   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Malpractice   

Subjects:  1. Legal Reference / Law Profession    2. Malpractice   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Malpractice   

Subjects:  1. Law / Malpractice    2. MALPRACTICE   

Subjects:  1. Malpractice    2. Medicolegal issues    3. Public health & safety law    4. USA    5. Law