By: Erika Sullivan, MD When I was a third-year medical student, I had a rotation on the far north side of Chicago, in Evanston, at a local community hospital delivering babies on the OB Ward. Because the arrangement with this hospital was a new one, and because the hours on the OB deck were quite … More The Importance of Failure
By Karen Gunning and Katie Traylor Across America, clinics are humming with the sounds of automated blood pressure cuffs, the beep of thermometers, and the clink of the scales. A commonly heard phrase in these clinics during the patient rooming process is: “What medications are you taking?” These five words comprise one of the … More Medication Reconciliation: It’s Not Just a List
This article was originally published in Algorithms for Innovation https://youtu.be/fStBWT6fa3E Michael Cohen, MD understands all too well the consequences that come from diagnostic errors after being treated for acid reflux only to find out two years later that he had lung cancer along. Dr. Cohen is part of the Committee on Diagnostic Error in Medicine and is one … More DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS CARRY A STEEP PRICE
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