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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
Pembroke story featured in book on medical errors
4/15/08--After John McCormack’s 13-month-old daughter died in 2000 after doctors delayed emergency surgery, the Pembroke resident became an advocate for patient safety.
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 Click HERE to launch a video of John McCormack, father of Taylor McCormack (Chapter 5, Fatal Care), testifying to the Massachusetts Public Health Committee about the Patient Safety Act, H 2059
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
~ Helen Keller
“Up to 98,000 hospital patient deaths annually are due to preventable medical errors”
~ Source: “To Err is Human,” Institute of Medicine, 2000
“Medication errors injure at least 1.5 million Americans annually”
~ Source: “Preventing Medication Errors,” Institute of Medicine, July 2006
"We need to reduce costs and medical errors with better information technology"
~ President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 23, 2007 |
