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Excerpts from Michael’s Forbes.com blog, The Examining Table, and entries from The Health Care Blog
The Examining Table
Address “Plane-Crash Level” Patient Harm, HHS Tells Hospitals, As Political Currents Swirl
The Department of Health and Human Services is launching an Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety that aims to recruit the nation’s largest health systems as participants.
When Medical Error Becomes Personal, Activism Becomes Painful
Though I’d never myself experienced a medical error, I became an activist. Recently, however, a relative was a victim, and the frustrating persistence of error became personally painful. [So I examined] more closely what the profession euphemistically …
Digital Health Firms Reverse Dollar-Bill Motto In Bid To Make Big Bucks
Digital health firms are increasingly betting that the key to success is offering “one to many” technologies that addresses workforce shortages by expanding the reach of clinicians.
“No Weekend Surgery”Dooming Many Awaiting Life-Saving Transplants: Report
Large numbers of Americans awaiting life-saving organ transplants are dying because many transplant centers don’t do surgery on the weekend. The overall rejection rate for available kidneys could be slashed…by measures such as ensuring centers perfor…
Leana Wen’s “Lifelines” Combines “ER,” PBS and “Oprah” In a Compelling Read
Wen is a public health expert and emergency room (ER) physician who’s become widely known during the Covid pandemic for her regular appearances on CNN, in major newspapers and testifying before Congress.
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