Safety Quote by Robert Wachter

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

— Lucian Leape

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

— Jeremy Hunt

“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 patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done, to learn…

— Jeremy Hunt

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

— Anonymous

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged…

— Diane Ackerman

“when something does go wrong, we conduct blameless post-mortems, not to punish anyone, but to better understand what caused the accident and how to…

— Gene Kim

“the higher the psychological safety in a unit, the fewer errors they made. Why? In the units that lacked psychological safety, health care professionals…

— Adam M. Grant

“People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.”

— John Donohue

“The question that drives safety work in a just culture is not who is responsible for failure, rather, it asks what is responsible for…

— Sidney Dekker

When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety…

— Anthony Fauci