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 an ARC of the book for this review.
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Forge (Hardcover), August 2005
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1311-1 (0765313111)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1311-9 (9780765313119)
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ISBN-10: 0-7653-5596-5 (0765355965)
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Location(s) referenced: Seattle.