Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226430030 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Challenging Operations takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. 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. 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. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Kellogg show
Kellogg is an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. . Katherine C
"Kellogg's vivid account of the struggle to implement important medical reform instructs, inspires, and terrifies. Unique in its range of arguments and the literature it draws on, Challenging Operations is a wonderful book for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness, occupations, organizations, work, and social movements." (Carol Heimer, Northwestern University)"