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Title: TYPICAL WACHTER
Review: Dr. Wachter is well known within the medical community and at UCSF for being a slimy opportunist, anxious to put his smirking face on the promo posters for the trend of the month. How surprising is it, then, that with the overhyped concept of "medical errors" in the fore of everyone's mind, that we find none other than Dr. Wachter publishing a book on the subject under the auspices of "academia." The title itself speaks to Wachter's motive: is this legitimate research or a sensationalist piece of yellow journalism?Which is not to de-legitimize the episodes contained within, or the idea of systemic medical errors in general. Rather to point out that in jumping from the "noble profession" of academics to the talk-show publicity circuit, Dr. Wachter loses in credibility what he gains in book sales.
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