How Soon Should Students Learn to Care For the Caregiver? Part One
A number of core themes ran through our four-year patient safety curriculum. In previous posts, I have shared aspects of informed consent/shared decision-making and disclosure of medical errors as two...
View ArticleHow Soon Should Students Learn to Care for the Caregiver-Part Two
As with all of our patient safety teachings, we used real cases – both internal and external — to reinforce the educational messages taught throughout our Patient Safety curriculum, and hopefully, to...
View ArticleA Story of Strength, Love and Resilience
Many of you may have already read Josie’s Story. Sorrel King sent me a copy a few months back, and it has sat patiently on my bookshelf, waiting for me to discover the beauty that lay inside. I think I...
View ArticleA More Realistic Perspective on a Career in Medicine
Danielle Ofri, MD, physician, writer and editor, often turns her pen along with her focus to the emotional complexities that accompany a career in medicine. Her book, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions...
View ArticleJosie King Foundation: Picking Up the Pace for Patient Safety
2015 is well under way and our friends at the Josie King Foundation are determined to increase awareness and action around their mission of keeping patients, and providers, safe from medical harm. So...
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