Preventable Medical Errors
The Role of Different Sciences in Medical Education and Practice
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2025
- Author: Erwin B. Montgomery Jr.
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 3 0 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 3 0 1 - 9
Preventable Medical Errors: The Role of Different Sciences in Medical Education and Practice addresses the issues of staying up to date with evolving medical practices, by provid… Read more
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Request a sales quotePreventable Medical Errors: The Role of Different Sciences in Medical Education and Practice addresses the issues of staying up to date with evolving medical practices, by providing practical examples linked to real-world patient safety concerns and illustrating theoretical discussions with clear clinical practice scenarios. The book is divided into two sections, Part 1 - How Did It Come To This? and Part 2 - Where Does It Go From Here?; which guide the reader through how we got here historically and how we can navigate our way out using the tools the author presents. Thus paving the way, bridging a gap between theory and practice, while emphasizing the importance of patient safety. Written for all medical professionals, at the forefront of postmodern and scientific medical advancements, to ultimately improve clinical outcomes and reduce preventable medical errors.
- Provides the reader information to provide medical care that substantially reduces the risk for preventable medical error and consequent patient harm
- Presents a new set of tools more realistic of human biology, extending sample-based clinical research to patient-centric rather than sample-centric outcomes
- Allows the reader to create learning tools and situations resulting in more robust medical decision-making by physicians and clinicians
Physicians, Clinicians, Biomedical Scientists, Medical School Administrators, Health Policy Experts, Statisticians, Scholars of Medicine and its History, Educators and Students of those Disciplines
Part 1 - How Did It Come To This?
1. Paradigm Shifts in Medicine and Medical Education
2. The Need for Yet Another Paradigm Shift
3. What Kind of Science?
4. Overview of Postmodernism
5. Case Study: McMaster University School of Medicine
6. Evidence Based Medicine
Part 2 - Where Does It Go From Here?
7. Towards Logical Scientific Medicine
8. Cartesian Science
9. The Means and Obstacles to Knowledge
10. Victim of One's Own Success
11. Medicine in a Silent War with Itself
1. Paradigm Shifts in Medicine and Medical Education
2. The Need for Yet Another Paradigm Shift
3. What Kind of Science?
4. Overview of Postmodernism
5. Case Study: McMaster University School of Medicine
6. Evidence Based Medicine
Part 2 - Where Does It Go From Here?
7. Towards Logical Scientific Medicine
8. Cartesian Science
9. The Means and Obstacles to Knowledge
10. Victim of One's Own Success
11. Medicine in a Silent War with Itself
- No. of pages: 535
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443403002
- eBook ISBN: 9780443403019
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Erwin B. Montgomery Jr.
Dr. Montgomery has been an academic neurologist for over 40 years pursuing teaching, clinical and basic research at major academic medical centers. He has authored over 120 peer reviewed journal articles (available on PubMed) and 8 books on medicine (4 on the subject of Deep Brain Stimulation). The last two have been “Reproducibility in Biomedical Research” (Academic Press, 2024) and “The Ethics of Everyday Medicine” (Academic Press, 2023).
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, Department of Medicine (Neurology), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada