Medical Error

Hospitals Must Overcome Language Barriers to Save Lives, Cut Costs

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patient-Centered Communication, Language, Limited English Proficiency, Health, Language Barrier, Medical Error, Hospitals, Language Access, Medical Interpreter, Spanish, Patients, Joint Commission, Translation, Patient Care, Interpretation, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

More than 60 million people - about one in five legal U.S. residents - speak a language other than English at home, and it's not all Spanish, with mor...

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Shame, Guilt and Medical Error

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Medical Error, Intern, Shame, Patient, Guilt, Doctor, Apology, Health, Video, Healthy Living News
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

In this month's issue of Health Affairs, I write about a medical error I committed as a doctor-in-training. It's taken me two decades to speak publicly about this because of how painful it was.

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The Residency Regulators Are Back!

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Error, Doctor, Patient, Residency Regulations, Interns, Doctors-in-Training, Acgme, New York News
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

Medicine is far too complex to apply simple formulas. What really helps doctors-in-training practice good medicine, decrease errors, and maintain a high standard of professionalism is good supervision.

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Hospital Errors: Be Wary of the "July Effect"

ABC News | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Malpractice, Medical Mistakes, Medical Malpractice, Patient Safety, Hospital Errors, Medical Error, Medical Errors, Video, Healthy Living News

Findings from a new University of California San Diego study lend credence to what is called the "July effect" -- a long-held suspicion that July is t...

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Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atul Gawande, Medical Costs, Health, Complications, Book Reviews, Medical Error, Checklists, Checklist-Manifesto, Better, Book, Healthcare Reform, Medicine, Books News
Kathryn Schulz

To the usual list of new year's resolutions, most of them having to do with bettering ourselves in one way or another, I invite you to consider adding a new one: let's quit making so many mistakes.

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