Challenging Operations

Author: Katherine C. Kellogg
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226430030
Category: Medical

Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Download Challenging Operations medical books for free.
Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successful-in fact, two of the three hospitals she studied failed to make the change. Challenging Operations takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Kellogg shows the complex ways that institut Get Challenging Operations our bestseller medical books.

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