Chand Wattal • Nancy Khardori
Editors

2014

Principles & Practices

“First do no harm” is the operating principle for physicians taking care of patients in a healthcare setting. This book addresses a potential unintended event that can occur while receiving healthcare and thus breach this fundamental trust. It is outrageous but commonplace to find a patient admitted for an elective surgery developing urinary tract infection just because a urinary catheter was placed to facilitate overall care.