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My husband Steve Early just wrote this great article about the city we live in — a city that has learned some hard lessons about policing.   Police Violence is […]

Another dispatch from the front lines of patient safety. Several weeks ago, I spoke at a teaching hospital about the difficulties that medical staff encounter when they try to protect […]

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 […]

I’m writing this blogpost from the Delta airplane that I’m traveling on to Detroit to speak at a patient safety conference in Windsor, Canada. I’ve been wanting to write about […]

Have any of you ever had back pain? Or maybe the question should be, have any of you never had back pain? Whatever the answer, I want to tell you […]

 Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emmanuel – brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm – doesn’t want to live past 75. He’s against physician assisted suicide but, as a physician, he believes we should […]

As I’ve traveled around the country recently talking to nurses, doctors, and others in healthcare about the recent Ebola scare, I am struck by how many people have been quick […]

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 [...]