Jihad and American Medicine: Thinking Like a Terrorist to Anticipate Attacks Via Our Health System [Praeger Series on Contemporary Health And Living] » (1st Edition)

ADAM FREDERIC DORIN, M.D., is Medical Director at the SHARP Grossmont Plaza Surgery Center, and a Member-Shareholder of the Anesthesia Services Medical Group. He earned his pre-medical degree at the University of Maryland, completed his medical training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and completed his residency in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Dorin served as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He has been in private practice as an anesthesiologist and medical director for 15 years. He has also been a volunteer surveyor of freestanding surgery centers across the nation.

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.

"[T]akes full measure of the state of American health care from a security perspective. Dr. Dorin, medical director at the Sharp Grossmont Plaza Surgery Center in San Diego, depicts a medical system riddled with loopholes that could be abused by terrorists or by single individuals intent on causing harm. He argues all health entities are at high risk for terrorist attack, because they represent the most vulnerable of 'soft targets' of our nation's infrastructure....Dr. Dorin's writing style is provocative, with attention-grabbing chapter headings....[H]e said he wrote the book not to make a political statement but to improve the health system and save lives."

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Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: American Health Care Facilities May Be the Next Ground Zero     xi
Medi-Terror: The Stage Is Set     1
How Your Doctor Can Kill You (Without Even Knowing What He's Done)     7
Evil Precedents-Health Care Workers Gone Bad     16
Faking It (Counterfeit Medicines, Criminals, and Terrorists: The History and Implications of Compromised Pharmaceutical Security)     25
Hospital and Surgery Center "Security"...or Lack Thereof, Part I: Overview     36
Hospital and Surgery Center "Security," Part II: Breaking In from the Outside     53
Hospital Security, Part III: Thinking Like a Terrorist-The Inside Job     62
Accreditation Standards-Lax or Not Enforced?     82
Doctors' Offices Are Vulnerable     94
What We Can Do and Must Do Stat (Antidotes and Anecdotes)     109
As a Patient, What You Can Do to Protect Yourself-19 Tips for Survival     118
The Power for Change-One Doctor at a Time     126
A History of Medical-Related "Terrorism," Poisons, and Murder     135
Drug-ATMs     159
Notes     163
Index     179