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TED talk on doctors’ mistakes
TED.com has posted physician Brian Goldman’s very engaging presentation from November 2011, “Doctors make mistakes: can we talk about that?” Goldman discusses the impossibly high expectations we all have of doctors — doctors themselves especially — and calls for a reality check. Using personal anecdotes, he argues that medical culture must change to allow physicians [...]
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Shared Decision Making in the News
Media coverage of the challenges we face in making good treatment decisions often focuses on and sensationalizes medical errors, catastrophes and risks. So it was great to see this impressive TV news clip circulated by Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.org in his blog last week. Reporter Jeff Baillon of Minnesota’s FOX 9 news does a great [...]
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Ellen Hoenig Carlson: Patients Beware – 1 Out of 3 Subject to Hospital Error
This guest post by SPM member Ellen Hoenig Carlson was inspired by a study on the prevalence of medical errors, published in the April issue of Health Affairs. Medical errors are one of the nation’s leading causes of death and injury. The famed 1999 Institute of Medicine study, “To Err Is Human,” estimated that avoidable [...]
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MITSS: Much-needed support after medical errors
Ten years ago this week, 11/18/99, Linda Kenney was scheduled for ankle replacement surgery. She woke up three days later in the ICU. Her chest had been cut open. She was in the hospital ten days. And nobody talked about what had happened. What had happened is that the nerve block administered to her ankle (a [...]
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Dennis Quaid on Electronic Medical Records (CBS Sunday Morning)
Actor Dennis Quaid has become an advocate for electronic medical records. In 2007 his 12 day old twins received a massive accidental overdose (10,000 units of heparin instead of 10 units), a near-fatal error that could have been prevented by the kind of bar code technology that the VA has been using for decades. (Yes, folks, [...]
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