2008

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices...

FDA posts list of potential problem drugs

Closing the Disparities Gap in Healthcare...

Yale Daily News: Discovering a tiny gene's...

Notes of an Anesthesiologist: Losing...

(photo courtesy of trust builders) Having met several moms...

Poverty, Health and Political Priorities:...

World Health Organization Safe Surgery...

Dear Ms Micalizzi, On behalf of the World Health Organization’s World Alliance for Patient...

Charlie Baker on Let's Do Something About...

BBC Health

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
— Ovid, Roman poet

Endorsement of the "WHO Surgical Safety...

Helping VS. SERVICE

By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. (with permission)    Yesterday, a very unhappy husband called me and...

Team for Kids

The Kind Excellence Blog: Quick As a Cricket...

I have no comment...

Doctors Within Borders

Injured? Horsing Around With Stem Cells May...

DOCTalk Magazine interviews Don Berwick

Hospital death rates unveiled

A Letter from a Hospital CEO

“I was one of the participants at the recent conference in Orlando where you spoke. I have...

Team building skills

Living with Uncertainty

Learning from adverse medical events is imperative to surviving family members.  The clinical...

New Release: Taking the HELL out of Healthcare by Nick...

New era of preventing birth-related deaths

Superbugs by Jerome Groopman in the NEW...

Hospitals try to calm doctors'...

They are being robbed of their childhood

Robin Youngson speaks on Compassion in...

Trend: Hospitals apologize for mistakes...

Babies Bar Coded To Prevent Medicine Mixups

Words of Gratitude for the Medical...

One of the most rewarding accomplishments of my career in patient safety is when a nurse,...

“When I grieve, when I stand by others as they grieve,...

Healthcare Whistleblowers Recognized in DC

Dr. Jeff Nisker is a Professor of Obstetrics-Gynaecology and...

Charting a Course for the Future by RMI...

“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr. 

Medicine Gears Up for a Code Green

Alternative Dispute Resolution in Healthcare

Patient Disclosure AHRQ

What about punishment?

Hospital bullies take a toll on patient...

“Of the five senses given to you, listening may be the one...”

Baby Boomers in Healthcare-Who’s caring for the...

Building Better Health

Medicare's no-pay events: Coping with the...

AMA apologizes to black doctors for past...

Randy Pausch - 2nd Inspirational Lecture

AVARICE, COMPASSION AND THE SCARCITY...

By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. (Posted with permission from Dr. Thomas)     Avarice is not only one of...

A Tale of Two Hospitals: One Covers-Up and...

Better Assessment and Better Management of...

Medical Helicopter Crashes

Patient Transfers: Learning from Motor Racing...

Another Case of Wrong Site Surgery: Are We...

Behaviors that undermine a culture of...

Splashes of hope

Is your baby autistic? UF researchers' book...

Special Needs Parent Toolkit

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats...”
— James D. Miles

Online sources of medical information

Community Medical Foundation for Patient...

Hospital tells of surgery on wrong side

Use of telemedicine expanding in Ohio's rural...

Electronic Prescribing: Building, Deploying...

Kids and Cars-Safety Tips

Cry

Serious patient errors at California...

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow”
— Charlotte BronteEnglish...

Every year, I ask my 1st and 2nd grade students to draw a...

Welcome to the Patient Voices programme UK

who surgical safety checklist and...

My Conversation with JoEllen Koerner,...

One of the most amazing women that I’ve met on this journey is Dr. JoEllen Koerner. We...

Welcome to the Health and Disability...

NYS BILL PASSED ON LANDMARK LEGISLATION TO...

'Sorry' started here: VA began error...

Compliment following my Presentation

“My oldest son was admitted to the hospital for surgery on Sunday night for an elbow...

The new doctor-patient paradigm How the shift...

“A doctor is no longer at his intellectual peak just because...”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878

the talking cure why conversation is the...

National Patient Safety Goals 2009

Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health...

Packard Kids Connection Website Helps Reduce...

action against medical accidents in the UK

Other Featured CAPS Tools and Resources

Sue Sheridan video on Patient Safety

Sid Schwab: No more and no less a human being...

Father’s Day 2008-In HONOR of all surviving Dads.  A...

Allina Hospitals & Clinics establishes new...

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give...”
— Abraham Lincoln

Hospitals want involved patients by Judith...

Severe-Sepsis Care Improves with Order Set

Rise in child drownings prompts new warnings...

Medical students' experiences with medical...

Maui in June… I was gifted a family trip to Maui by a...

Cancer Patients Celebrate Their Lives at Prom...

New Release: Partnering with Patients and...

Launch of Safe Surgery Saves Lives - 25 June...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces...

Hospitalized kids get too many infections,...

Cheering on Patients:DC/Baltimore nurses use...

Why Diagnostic Errors Don’t Get Any Respect…...

Introducing Spirituality in Medical Care

Targets are crowding out compassion in the...

Compassion in healthcare-The missing...

Dedication of Justin’s basketball hoop at Schalmont...

Research Project: Emotional/Physical Impact...

Patient/Family Anesthesia Check Lists

I will be presenting on the Patient/Family Anesthesia Check Lists, that I created with...

Testing the Limits of Transparency

Study: Bacteria a factor in sudden infant...

CEOs Who Don't Get Out Often Enough, And Some...

NRC+Picker Launches Patient-Centered Care...

Medical Malpractice: Fiction, Facts and the...

Part II Apology and Disclosure, How a Medical...

Robin Youngson updates New Zealand Compassion...

Editorial Doctors Who Say They're Sorry

Medical Malpractice: Fiction, Facts and the...

Google Offers Personal Health Records on the...

Screening for Abuse May Be Key to Ending It

In Hospitals, Simple Reminders Reduce Deadly...

Doctors Start to Say ‘I’m Sorry’ Long Before...

‘The Day God Dropped the Paint Box’. This is a...

GOVERNOR PATERSON PROPOSES LANDMARK...

My conversation with Henry Rosenberg MD...

Serious Reactions to Anesthesia

Mother’s Day 2008-In HONOR of all surviving Moms. A...

New York State Department of Health Funds...

Steps Schools (Hospitals) Can Take to Stop...

Anti-Psych Meds Spike in US, UK kids

Etiquette-Based Medicine by Michael W. Kahn,...

It's not an insult if nurse calls you...

State watch for 2 percent of doctors

How Patient and Family Advisors Can Improve...

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
— Zora Neale Hurston American...

Life Matters in Australia

My conversation with Steve Kraman MD...

Patients: An Untapped Safety Resource

Medically Induced Trauma Support Services of...

"Just remember, lead with your humanity."

Empathy and Brain Pain Relief

A Fresh Focus On a Rare Risk of Anesthesia by...

The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets...

At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions?

Conflict Management From the Heart:A Day in...

Reducing diagnostic errors through effective...

Compassion in Healthcare-The Heart of...

“It merely requires that a critical mass of Americans begin...”

Putting the Cart Before the Horse

Since my recent Modern Healthcare commentary referred to “never events” (not my original...

Leadership and Change

Two of my favorite bloggers and healthcaare leaders were consulted for an upcoming presentation that...

Health Care Costs and Malpractice Reform

My conversation with Chris Johnson MD...

Justin’s HOPE new bookmarks have arrived!

Leading Pediatrician Addresses The Future Of...

Me and my Sunday School kids

Patients rate their hospital care by Judith...

Joint Commission Alert: Prevent Pediatric...

'Last Lecture' Web Sensation Now a Book by...

Medical Errors Costing U.S. Billions

A Son's "Never Event" My interview with NAHQ...

Who Pays For Medical Errors? An Analysis Of...

Efficiency is the cure

“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if...”

Medicine mix-ups harm hospitalized kids

America, let's talk about racial and gender...

Effectiveness and Efficiency of Root Cause...

AmeriCares Medical Volunteers Bringing...