Health care Quote by Adam M. Grant

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,

— Lucian Leape

“psychological safety—the belief that you can take a risk without being penalized or punished.”

— Adam M. Grant

“The modern patient safety movement replaces “the blame and shame game” with an approach known as systems thinking. This paradigm acknowledges the human condition—namely,…

— Robert Wachter

“frequently see this happening in my research: Lacking a sense of psychological safety, people”

— Christine Porath

Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has…

— Donald A. Norman

It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an…

— Andrew Harvey

“​When it’s safe to talk about mistakes, people are more likely to report errors and less likely to make them.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous…

— Pal Benko

“When these accidents affect our customers, we seek to understand why it happened. The root cause is often deemed to be human error, and…

— Gene Kim

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were…

— Thucydides

“Safety starts with management leadership and commitment. Without these, the efforts of others in the organization are almost doomed to failure. Leadership creates culture,…

— Nancy G. Leveson

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

— Samuel Butler