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(An American Civil Liberties Union Handbook.) Third edition. By George J. Annas. 387 pp. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. $19.95. ISBN 0-8093-2515-2.

The Rights of Patients begins with the following vignette:

Boston Globe medical reporter Betsy Lehman undergoes a stem cell transplant to treat her breast cancer. A young physician misreads the protocol, and she is given four times the proper dose [of chemotherapy] over a period of days. Desperately ill, she calls a friend to say "something's wrong"; a little more than an hour later she is found dead in her room. She was thirty-nine years old and one of forty-four thousand to ninety-eight thousand patients who die each year in the United States from medical errors.

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