Patient Safety Blog
Blog URL http://www.PatientSafetyBlog.com
Located Boston, Massachusetts USA
Tags patient empowerment, patient advocate, patient safety, cancer survivor, patient partnership, medical malpractice, medical error, patient advisor, quality healthcare
This blog is about patient safety, medical malpractice, staying healthy, and preventing future errors. Help & empower someone else.
Latest Blog Posts
- Half the rate in the U.S.: Mammograms and physicians' learning curve on Nov 22, 2009 in Journal of the National Cancer Institute breast cancer inappropriate surgery Smith-Bindman mammogram unnecessary surgery
The recent change in recommended mammography screening stems from a concern that the huge number of false positive readings led too many women to get unnecessary surgery, and to feel great needless anxiety. Doctors who read a lot of mammograms are f...
- The only problem: Impersonal hospital care on Nov 21, 2009 in compassionate care impersonal hospital care Rifkin haste
Dr. Dena Rifkin's plaint:A close family member was recently hospitalized after nearly collapsing at home. He was promptly checked in, and an EKG was done within 15 minutes. He was given a bar-coded armband, his pain level was assessed, blood was dr...
- After another week on dialysis he called back: Kidney donation on Nov 20, 2009 in Hickey kidney cancer hero dialysis kidney donation MacFarquhar MatchingDonors Smitty
The first patient to list himself publicly on MatchingDonors.com was Bob Hickey, a psychologist in his mid-fifties who'd learned he had kidney cancer. At first, he'd done what his doctor told him to do: he went on dialysis, signed up on the officia...
- He doesn't call, he doesn't write: Patient Family Advisory Councils for medical groups on Nov 14, 2009 in suggestion box email automatic phone call H1N1 vaccination
I got an automatic phone call from my pharmacy the other day, telling me that my prescription was ready for pick-up. And an automatic phone call from our temple president about upcoming events I might want to participate in. But during the current...
- Think Olive Garden: Innovative Patient/Family Advisory Councils on Nov 13, 2009 in BIDMC Family-Centered Care Award Paul Levy Massachusetts General Hospital Cooley Dickinson Hospital MGH Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
The CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently had the pleasure of touting a major national award for patient satisfaction won by their NICU (neonatal intensive care unit): the Family-Centered Care Award, by the Society for Critical Care...
- At least they have a line to wait in: A death from lack of insurance on Nov 13, 2009 in Linda Harris cervical cancer lack of insurance Kristof Pap smear
Sue was a 31-year-old patient of Ob-Gyn Dr. Linda Harris, in Oregon, as Nicholas Kristof writes in today's New York Times. Sue was a single mom who worked hard, sometimes two jobs at a time. Her jobs never provided health insurance, and she couldn'...
- A pinstriped evangelist: V.A. Secretary Shinseki's advocacy for veterans on Nov 12, 2009 in traumatic brain injury Dao Shinseki PTSD veterans Shanker Veterans Day
The New York Times wrote today that Eric "Shinseki has been criss-crossing the country as Pres. Obama's pinstriped evangelist for veterans' care, raising concerns about a coming tide of post-traumatic stress cases, traumatic brain juries and other ph...
