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“America’s healthcare system is in great need of repair. America needs this important work from Dr. Sanjaya Kumar.”
~ David B. Nash, MD, MBA; Professor of Health Policy and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Monday, December 20, 2010 - From Bart Windrum, the author of "Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One's End-of-Life Hospitalization."
"I'm a member of the 50 'patient activists' invited by IHI to attend this month's conference and the patient activist leadership summit. I grabbed your book in the expo hall and just read it.
As a fellow author and avid reader of our type of books, I rarely find a book by a doctor that truly serves as an advocacy guide for patient-families. In my experience, when docs (or their spouses) become patients and they subsequently write a book, however well meaning, usually it reads more or less as a mea culpa.
Yours is a welcome exception. Your chapter-ending guidance sections are vital contributions to this lay person/advocate's library."
~ Bart Windrum,
Axiom Action LLC
"Our entire leadership team read Fatal Care... it really puts a face on why our patient safety improvement efforts are so important."
"Fatal Care provided the vehicle to analyze the cases chapter by chapter. Talking about real cases brings the hospital's own patient safety statistics into sharp relief. Team members now are more likely to share stories of near-misses and quality problems, which is helping Story Medical identify and correct problems that occur before they become harmful."
~ Gale Herrera, Chief Nursing Officer at Story County
Medical Center
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CMS Administrator Donald Berwick Discusses Subjects of Fatal Care's Chapter 5: The Promise, Taylor and John McCormack
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Click here to watch video of the hearing >> (Note: Dr. Berwick's discussion about Taylor and John McCormack begins at 16:08.)
Listen to FatalCare
Chapter 1 read by Karin J. Bernsten (42 min)
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Fatal Care contributor, Karin Berntsen, appears on CW TV's San Diego Living
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Health and Human Services Announces 5-Year Plan for Infection Prevention
www.healthnews.com
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a statement setting up a five-year plan to prevent infections caused by the health care industry. Most of these infections can be avoided by implementing better procedures for in-care hospital treatment and surgical practices.”
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Medication Error Rates High for Cancer Patients
www.modernmedicine.com.com
"FRIDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Among cancer patients, about 8 percent of outpatient visits are associated with a medication error, most often administration errors due to a lack of communication, according to a report published online Dec. 29 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.”
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Few Doctors Sign Off on Online Prescribing
www.washingtonpost.com
"Samuel Benesh, an internist who practices in Owings Mills, Md., tossed his prescription pad nearly three years ago, and he hasn't missed it since.
Patients still get their medications, but now there are no more lost slips of paper or long waits in line at the pharmacy. They don't even need to phone in for refills. It all happens electronically -- or magically, as one of Benesh's patients put it. ”
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