Wall of Silence The Untold Stories of the Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of Americans by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan P. Singh Lifeline Press ; ISBN: 0-89526-112-X Hardcover - 259 pages (May 2003) $24.95 Read this book before you go back to your doctor’s office! Up to 100,000 Americans die each year as a result of some form of medical mistake. And this is just the reported number of deaths. The total number of deaths and other disabilities is estimated to be triple (or more) of what’s actually reported. Wall of Silence takes you behind the scenes to expose heartbreaking stories of medical malpractice, careless misdiagnosis, and downright neglect on the part of health care personnel across the country. Victims are young and old, healthy and infirm, who innocently entrusted their lives to those who took an oath to “do no harm.” Yet doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and other medical professionals cover up mistakes every day. Wall of Silence is the complete story of the breadth and depth of medical mistakes. Gibson puts real names and faces to the countless that suffer and die every day because of ineptitude, poor quality, and lack of management in a system that is badly broken. Doctors and nurses also provide first-hand accounts of what actually goes on behind the curtains, describing the mistakes that do happen, but also how terrifyingly close every practitioner is, every moment, to disaster. In Wall of Silence, Gibson breaks this unspoken code of silence gripping our nation’s health care system. With her connection to The LeapFrog Group, a coalition of Fortune-500 companies whose mission is to raise the nation’s awareness of and to reduce medical errors; and her position as a senior program officer for a major foundation specializing in health care, Gibson has a unique vantage point from which to report on this national tragedy. Wall of Silence is a must-read for all those who are consumers of health care in this country. Click here to order from Amazon: