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On September 18, 2014, the New York Times OpEd page published a wonderful commentary by physician Barron H. Lerner called When Medicine Is Futile. The physician argued that doctors are […]

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.  […]