Silence kills : speaking out and saving lives /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gutkind, Lee
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, [2007]
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Medical humanities.
Subjects:	Communication in medicine. Medical errors. Communication > Personal Narratives. Medical Errors > Personal Narratives. Quality of Health Care > Personal Narratives. Physician-Patient Relations > Personal Narratives. Ethics, Medical > Personal Narratives. Communication > Essays. Medical Errors > Essays.

Table of Contents:

Editor's note / Lee Gutkind
Foreword: toward a more caring, and curing, health system / Karen Wolk Feinstein
Introduction / Abraham Verghese
The good doctor / Helena Studer
Missing / Merilee D. Karr
Mrs. Kelly / Paul Austin
Non pro nobis / John Bess
Saving my breath / Tamara Dean
Watching my mother hallucinate / Diana Hume George
Foreign bodies / Grace Talusan
You have the right to remain silent / Pamela Skjolsvik
See the difference / Sue William Silverman
Keeping up appearances / Leslie Einhaus
Do no harm / Pamela Lane
In praise of osmosis / Jill Drumm.