Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Name: Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery
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ISBN: 9780226430034

ISBN-10: 0226430030

ISBN-13: 9780226430034

Edition: 2011

Authors: Katherine C. Kellogg

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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. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successfulin fact, two of the three hospitals she studied failed to make the change.Challenging Operationstakes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis,…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The World at 120 hours a Week



A Day in the Life of an Intern



Similar Hospitals, Similar Programs



Meet the Iron Men



Potential Reformers



Collective Combat



Defending Stability



Relationally Mobilizing for Change



Countermobilizing for Resistance



Collectively Disrupting


Conclusions and Implications


Acknowledgments


Notes


References


Index