Deadly Errors
Non-series
Allen
Wyler
Forge (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5167-6 (0765351676)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5167-8 (9780765351678)
Publication Date: April 2008
List Price: $7.99
Synopsis (from
the publisher): When the doctors and nurses at Seattle's prestigious
Maynard Medical Center start making preventable drug and treatment
errors that kill their patients, neurosurgeon Dr. Tyler Mathews
suspects that something is murderously wrong with the hospital's highly
touted new "Med-InDx" electronic medical record. But when he airs his
concerns to the hospital's upper management, he's met with
stonewalling, skepticism---and threats.
Millions of dollars, and the future of Med-InDx, are at stake. And
powerful corporate forces aren't about to let their potential profits
evaporate. Tyler soon finds that his career, his marriage, and his very
life are in jeopardy---along with the lives of countless innocent
patients.
Review:
Allen Wyler's debut novel, Deadly Errors, is an electrifying medical mystery that
essentially poses the question, How much of one's life can be entrusted
to technology?
In the renowned Maynard Medical Center in Seattle, a state of the art
new computer system has been installed on a trial basis. Med-InDX, a
“new millennium technology”, is supposed to
revolutionize medical records by virtually eliminating human errors
that kill an estimated one thousand lives each year. When a patient of
dedicated neurosurgeon Dr. Tyler Matthews dies while
in operating room, he looks for a reason. His prescribed
dosage is correct, but the system has administered a lethal dosage
instead. He suspects an error in the system. or worse, a hacker that
has possibly invaded the system. With a tattered reputation following
him from a previous hospital, he is subsequently accused of malpractice
and for blaming the computer for his incompetence. He decides to probe
the accuracy of the program and discovers others have died not only
during surgeries, but also in the ER, or while recovering from an
illness. When he brings these cases to the attention of his superiors,
his suspicions are ignored. Moreover, he is told to stop his
investigation. When he does not stop it leads to more people dying. In
addition, some of this associates who agreed to help him have
mysteriously disappeared or are found dead of unknown causes. His
continued tenacity takes him from the pristine offices of the Maynard
Medical Center to the bowels of Seattle’s underground city
where he risks not only his reputation but his life to prove there is a
big error in the system – and it is more likely to be caused
by human intervention than by the technology.
Deadly Errors is a spellbinding thriller with characters that come to
life. Dr. Matthews shows fear and other human frailties yet brings
heroic tenacity in his effort to save lives. The plot is frighteningly
realistic yet cleverly plotted. This book is definitely not recommended
reading for anyone about to enter the hospital for surgery or any other
procedure, but for everyone else, it is pulse-pounding entertainment.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Deadly Errors and to Susan Schwartzman Public Relations for providing a copy of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2008 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1311-9 (9780765313119)
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Location(s) referenced: Seattle.