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DEADLY ERRORS is a fast moving, heart-stopping, and often heartbreaking story set in a medical center in Seattle that is struggling to keep up with the increasing demands of insurance companies, governmental requirements, and the ever-expanding load of patients coming through its doors. When two companies invent different electronic medical records systems that could help reduce human errors and patient deaths, the Center becomes the focus of the medical community as it tests one of these systems. Records are being changed and patients are dying. Are the errors deliberately man-made, or the product of computer error? Dr Mathews begins a desperate search for the truth which may lead to his own death. Dare he trust the FBI again after it helped destroy his career in San Francisco? Backers of the system have much to gain, and it seems there is also much to lose if you are one of the unlucky patients. Allen Wyler, a neurosurgeon himself, gives the reader a front row seat in the emergency ward and operating room as decisions are made in seconds that can determine if a person will live or die. The description of the demands on a doctor's personal life and health is also thought- provoking. This is Wyler's first novel, one which he conceived after wondering what would happen if an electronic medical records system had errors in it and what might be the effect on patients if it did. Wyler has a clear, crisp writing style and plenty of material. He admits drawing from his own cases. However this story would have benefitted from the use of restraint halfway through. Dr Wyler has his main character go far beyond what a rational person would. The reader ends up questioning the character's sanity rather than feeling the compassion for him that seems to be called for. This book will give the reader pause before agreeing to be admitted to a hospital and should engender more respect for physicians. Their lot seems to be not a happy one.
Reviewed by Ginger K.W. Stratton, March 2008
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