Full Description
State-of-the-art counter-terrorism techniques, insights into modern medical practice, medical errors, and disaster prevention all intersect in this groundbreaking book by Adam Dorin, M.D., an anesthesiologist and medical director across 15 years. Dr. Dorin shows us why our healthcare system may be the next Ground Zero for terrorism and how many opportunities there are for terrorists to infiltrate the system. He offers a history of medical and healthcare-related serial killers, showing how they got inside the system to murder relatively easily, takes a detailed look at the profound problems that already exist in counterfeit and tainted medicinal products, and describes biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism that could be used against our healthcare system. Most critically, Dr. Dorin presents a detailed blueprint for safeguarding our system and preventing medical terrorism from ever taking place.
In tackling largely hidden but potentially deadly issues such as the failures of security at hospitals and surgical centers, Dr. Dorin's unique book offers the first in-depth public expose and loud alert to the risks and gaping weak spots in our healthcare system. Written simply and clearly, this work will interest all readers concerned with terrorism and the ways they might become victim to it. Dr. Dorin's warnings should certainly also interest and inform leaders and employees in the security, law enforcement, and medical fields.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: American Health Care Facilities May Be the Next Ground Zero
1 Medi-Terror: The Stage Is Set
2 How Your Doctor Can Kill You (Without Even Knowing What He's Done)
3 Evil Precedents—Health Care Workers Gone Bad
4 Faking It (Counterfeit Medicines, Criminals, and Terrorists: The History and Implications of Compromised Pharmaceutical Security)
5 Hospital and Surgery Center "Security"...or Lack Thereof, Part I: Overview
6 Hospital and Surgery Center "Security," Part II: Breaking In from the Outside
7 Hospital Security, Part III: Thinking Like a Terrorist—The Inside Job
8 Accreditation Standards—Lax or Not Enforced?
9 Doctors' Offices Are Vulnerable
10 What We Can Do and Must Do Stat (Antidotes and Anecdotes)
11 As a Patient, What You Can Do to Protect Yourself—19 Tips for Survival
12 The Power for Change—One Doctor at a Time
Appendix A: A History of Medical-Related "Terrorism," Poisons, and Murder
Appendix B: Drug-ATMs
Notes
Index
