Our Healthcare Systems Need A Strong Dose of Compassion

It should be no more acceptable to encounter an absence of compassion, kindness and respect in the healthcare setting than it is to buy a new car and discover they forgot to include the brakes.  Yet it happens to patients and families everyday around the world, along with the emotional harm it unleashes. (Published in […]

Will the IOM Report on Diagnostic Errors Make Any Difference?

The prognosis for the IOM’s newest bombshell on diagnostic errors is not encouraging. Its first report in 1999 on medical errors promised a 50 percent reduction in 5 years.  Since then the number of deaths has soared to the point where hospital harm is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. and Canada.   […]