Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Doctors by Robert M. Youngson

Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Doctors

Robert M. Youngson

416 pages first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters a...

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