Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors
by Caroline Elton · 1 Mar 2018 · 351pp · 101,051 words
; instead of having to find their place in two teams each year, they now have to settle into three. In 1984 a young woman named Libby Zion was admitted to a hospital in New York City complaining of a fever and earache. Six hours after admission she was dead, due to a
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against the two junior doctors concerned—instead they indicted a medical education system that had allowed the error to occur. It took nineteen years from Libby Zion’s death for any limits on residents’ duty hours to be brought into effect in the United States. Finally, in 2003, a weekly limit of
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. psychiatrist Gwen Adshead: Adshead, G., “Becoming a Caregiver: Attachment Theory and Poorly Performing Doctors,” Med Edu 44:2 (2010) pp. 125–131. Libby Zion: Patel, N., “Learning Lessons: The Libby Zion Case Revisited,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology 64:25 (2014), pp. 2802–2804. residents’ duty hours: Temple, J., “Resident Duty Hours
Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
by Paul A. Ruggieri · 3 Jan 2012 · 224pp · 74,599 words
stronger. Times have changed for residents. It all changed because of the unexpected death of a patient in a New York city hospital in 1984. Libby Zion walked into an emergency room, ill and looking for care. She left in a body bag. Her father was a high-profile citizen of the
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Libby’s care (helped along by his vigorous lawsuit). In the end, the legal case and investigation uncovered what most residents already knew and lived. Libby Zion’s death exposed the exhaustive pressures and lack of supervision that were the norm in many training programs, both of which increased the potential for
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hand. When that day arrives, there will be no more surgeons left to do the cutting. Bibliography Asch, D. A., and R. H. Parker. “The Libby Zion Case.” New England Journal of Medicine 318 (1988): 771–75. Bishop, T. F., et al. “Physicians’ Views on Defensive Medicine: A National Survey.” Archives of
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
by Sandeep Jauhar · 26 Dec 2007 · 327pp · 103,978 words
stayed up for thirty-six hours at a stretch. But things started to change late one spring evening in 1984, when a young woman named Libby Zion entered the emergency room at New York Hospital. She was agitated and running a high fever. Eight hours later, she was dead. Though the exact
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath · 10 Feb 2010 · 307pp · 94,069 words
the game—it is the game.” But organizational culture is a slippery, abstract concept. How do you change it? Where do you start? In 1984, Libby Zion, an 18-year-old freshman at Bennington College, at home visiting her parents in Manhattan, died in a New York teaching hospital. She’d been
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years of medical school and are beginning full-time work in hospitals.) Traditionally, interns have worked an astonishing 120 hours per week. The story of Libby Zion became the centerpiece of a campaign to limit the workweeks of medical residents. Almost two decades later, in 2003, Congress finally seemed ready to move
The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985
by Jordan Mechner · 26 Dec 2012 · 314pp · 46,664 words
told me Apple Karateka is now #8 on the Softsel chart. Wow. That impressed me. Went to hear Mike Nichols interviewed by Nora Ephron (the “Libby Zion Lecture”). I left inspired to grow up and do something. Like make movies. Nichols: “If you get the jokes right, everything else will fall into