(Published in The Huffington Post) Canadians and Americans buy and drive similar cars and trucks. They also suffer heart attacks and strokes. Sometimes, they need surgery. But while Canadians, like their American cousins, can read reviews on the safety, reliability and quality of a Ford or Jeep before they invest their hard-earned dollars, the same […]
Deaths from medical mistakes occur one patient at a time. Yet, taken together in Canada, they are the equivalent of a large city bus full of passengers crashing and killing everyone on board every day of the year. So why is there so little focus on this epidemic of harm? (Published in The Huffington Post) […]
A safe patient is an informed patient. In today’s world, that means having the information we need to make informed healthcare choices. Nowhere is this more important than in the hospital setting. In the United States, the move to make hospitals safer has spun a virtual cottage industry of rating systems that score hospitals on […]