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This will be a short blog post, with one question.  Why aren’t more physicians at patient safety conferences?  I am at one now in Canada, two hundred people were in […]

EHR Vendors and Reality: The Critical Need for a Sociotechnical Fix by Michael Woods, MD from his blog Sociotechnologix Let’s look at two very different positions from a single article on [...]

Just had this published in the Dallas Morning News with my co-editor Ross Koppel of First Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety. Home > Opinion > […]

Since writing my blog post on the Quality and Safety BMJ article on the Deaf Effect, I’ve been thinking a lot about what people concerned with patient safety and the […]

It is now well recognized that the majority of avoidable patient deaths and injuries could be prevented by better teamwork and communication.  What does this mean in practice?  It means […]

For the past fifteen years, since the Institute of Medicine published its report To Err Is Human, patient safety has become the watchword of the day. Money has been spent.  […]

On Monday, my husband and I flew back to San Francisco from Boston after a two week visit.  As we were sitting in the airport waiting for our 4:13PM flight […]

Hippocrates may have said “first do no harm” centuries before Florence Nightingale reiterated the injunction, but nurses really believe that they are morally superior to physicians or many others [...]

Last week the Boston Globe reported more bad news about patient safety.  In an article entitled “Mass Hospitals’ Mistake List Widens”, the Globe reported that, [...]

Since writing my rant on SBAR last week, I want to pursue the issue of standardization of communication in healthcare.  As I said in my earlier post, many patient safety […]