Jury of My Peers: A Surgeon's Encounter with the Malpractice Crisis - Howard C. Snider,Jr. - Hardcover

"This book reads like a popular novel...I couldn't put it down. Unfortunately for doctors & patients, it is all true. I hope everyone reads it."--Art Ulene, M.D. - NBC TODAY SHOW. "A real-life, gripping drama chronicling the ravages of a system compromising all involved. If anyone doubts the agonies of our decaying civil justice system, they need only read this superb narrative." James S. Todd, M.D., Executive Vice President, AMA. "Snider's chief readership, the general public, will find him a fascinating chronicler...He is especially adept at explaining complex medical details comprehensibly & at describing his own emotional reaction to the drama of the lawsuit."--NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. JURY OF MY PEERS is the true story of a physician's encounter with a medical malpractice lawsuit, much of the dialogue having been taken directly from the court transcript. As the book traces the suit from start to finish, the reader gains insight into the upheaval & emotional turmoil charges of medical negligence bring into the personal lives of the principals. Woven into the story are observations on the inequities of the legal system, not only for physicians but for patients as well. It is a clarion call for reform.Snider, Howard C., Jr. is the author of 'Jury of My Peers: A Surgeon's Encounter with the Malpractice Crisis - Howard C. Snider,Jr. - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780962260704 and ISBN 0962260703.