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The Health Care Blog
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Health care in the YouTube era

By Bob Wachter August 11th was the 2nd anniversary of the epic implosion of George Allen's presidential campaign, the first defeat at the hands of YouTube. Two recent videos of unattended patients...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: bob wachter, consumers, patient safety, quality

The Health Care Blog
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"Macaca" moments in health care

By Bob Wachter August 11th was the 2nd anniversary of the epic implosion of George Allen's presidential campaign, the first defeat at the hands of YouTube. Two recent videos of unattended patients...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: bob wachter, consumers, patient safety, quality

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Communication 101: Shedding power imbalances to protect patients

By Katie Fiebelkorn Westman Katie Fiebelkorn Westman is a registered nurse at an acute care hospital in the Minnesota Twin Cities. She is working toward a clinical nurse specialist degree, focusing...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: hospitals, nursing, patient safety, quality

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Should a surgeon be punished for wrong-site surgery?

By Paul Levy During these couple of weeks following our wrong-side surgery, a number of people have asked me if we intend to punish the surgeon in charge of the case, as well as other people in the...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: hospitals, patient safety, paul levy, quality

Health Affairs Blog
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Eight Days: A Health Care Diary

PAIN (Chicago, June 19 – June 21) I sit down at a circular table in the high-ceilinged meeting room and conversationally ask the two women already there what brought them to this three-day...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, consumers, patient safety, personal experience, quality

The Health Care Blog
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Another case of wrong-site surgery: are we averting our eyes from the root causes?

By Bob Wachter Yet another case of wrong-side surgery, this one at Boston’s Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital. Though CEO Paul Levy does a nice job discussing the case on his blog, I’ll focus on two...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: bob wachter, hospitals, patient safety, physicians, quality

The Health Care Blog
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A message you hope to never send

By Paul Levy First, an email sent out on Thursday morning. My commentary follows. Dear BIDMC Community, This week at BIDMC, a patient was harmed when something happened that never should happen: A...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 2 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: hospitals, patient safety, paul levy, quality, transparency

The Health Care Blog
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How preventing infections rose to the forefront of the patient safety movement

By Bob Wachter The Joint Commission just released its 2009 National Patient Safety Goals, and –- no surprise –- they focus on infection prevention. While this seems natural today, it wasn’t always...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 2 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bob wachter, hospitals, patient safety, quality, the industry

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Why diagnostic errors don't get any respect and what can be done about it

By Bob Wachter I gave a keynote yesterday to the first-ever meeting on "Diagnostic Error in Medicine." I hope the confab helps put diagnostic errors on the safety map. But, as Ricky Ricardo said, the...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bob wachter, hospitals, patient safety, physicians

The Health Care Blog
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Dennis Quaid takes on hospital errors by Sarah Arnquist

Hospital patient safety has a new celebrity advocate in Dennis Quaid, whose twin newborns received a massive overdose of a blood thinner last year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center while being treated...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: hospitals, patient safety, quality