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, 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.

Product Description: Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism examines the concept of medical narcissism and how error disclosure to patients and families is often compromised by the health professional’s need to preserve his or her self-esteem at the cost of honoring the patient’s right to the unvarnished truth about what has happened...read more

Product Description: Long considered a classic on the nature of medical mistakes, Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes is now available to a new generation of readers. Paget - who herself died of a medical error - argued that mistakes are an intrinsic part of the clinical process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The intermediate-level, video-based Nuevos Destinos is a core student textbook and two separate workbooks that make the text appropriate for two different courses: 1) an intensive high beginner course (review of first year), and 2) a second year grammar review course. Taking as its point of departure the video program Nuevos Destinos, the textbook contains a preliminary chapter plus 15 regular chapters that correlate to the 15 video episodes. Nuevos Destinos is a collaboration with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, WGBH, and the Annenberg/CPB Project.