Uncle John's bathroom reader germophobia

By Bathroom Readers' Institute

Subjects: Medicine, history, Medical care, Medicine, miscellanea, Miscellanea, Curiosities and wonders, History, Medicine

Description: Read stories about doctor visits or routine surgeries gone horribly wrong--the wrong limb getting amputated, the wrong person getting a transplant, the nurse who didn't notice her patient had died ... for three days. Because we never get tired of reading about big boo-boos (as long as they're happening to someone else), here is a whole book of the troubling and funny stories of when good health care goes bad.