Nothing is Risk-Free in Health Care is not a scare book but actually an alert book, calling patients attention to some of the many risks existing in everyones medical careand offering some hints on how to decrease many of those risks. Written in an easy-reading conversational style, he reviews several aspects of medical carephysicians, pharmacists, surgery, mental health, hospitals and those risks people create for themselves. Throughout it all, he stresses the importance of the patients constant awareness of risks and looking for ways to avoid or eliminate them. His advice is for the patient to take responsibility for his own health care.
