Introduction of Pupils

In a time when standards are being applied to everything from the manufacture of your car to the management of your investment portfolio, it is hard to imagine that your health and well-being are in the hands of men and women who follow no professional, accepted standards.

Dr. Bernard J. Sussman, a professor of neurosurgery, passionately argues that implementing standards for the medical profession will prevent the dire consequences of reckless and negligent medical practices. Such standards will assure patients the high level of medical care which Sussman insists we all deserve.

Dr. Sussman places much of the blame for the deaths and injuries described here on a medical system that reinforces behaviors which border on irresponsibility and, most importantly, on doctors who are not held accountable for their decisions.

This book will open your eyes to the risks you take as a patient while your doctors, free to act on their individual discretion, administer to your medical and surgical needs. It will uncover how the professionals in whom the public puts all of its trust, either through arrogance, carelessness, or indifference, feel they can act with impunity when it comes to the treatment and care of their patients.