Monitoring the birth of an industry
by Gregg Anthony Masters, MPH Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of posts on ‘Patient Safety’ and specifically the NMP (“not my patient, not my problem”) problem in medicine. I recently participated in the World Patient Safety Day in Washington, D.C., September 17th, 2024, with organizing founding members of the Patients for …
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By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Patient safety peeps are a vibrant and dynamic community with a compelling voice and powerful message. Spawned in part by the Institute of Medicine’s series including ‘To Err Is Human‘ and ‘Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative‘, the underbelly of ‘iatrogenic medicine’ was largely placed into the consciousness …
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