Healthcare Quote by Carmel Sheridan

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

— Jeremy Hunt

“The taxonomy of medical error is vast, colorful, and at times confusing. There are slips, lapses, harmless hits, and near misses; errors of omission…

— Nancy Berlinger

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

— Carl Levin

A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably…

— Andrew Saul

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

— Nino Schurter

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“One study concluded that there were 1.7 errors per patient per day in America's ICUs. Of these errors, 29 percent could have caused clinically…

— Peter Pronovost

“Keeping high-volume procedures within general hospitals allows hospitals to subsidize the unique, low-volume specialized capabilities that are so central to the value proposition of…

— Clayton M. Christensen

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have…

— Atul Gawande

It's unacceptable for any past or present service member to lose access or go through increased hurdles to get the medical services they rely…

— Dan Donovan

The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security records and…

— William Davis

The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research…

— Ivan Illich