This issue has not gotten the attention that it deserves, and I hope that today is the beginning of an effort to focus more light on it.
Thank you very much.
the third leading cause of death in this country has to do with preventable medical errors in hospitals.
We spend $50,000 on surgery, but we don't spend $500 a day on a social worker to make sure that those things are done.
How do we avoid another hearing 5 or 10 years down the road, where we say, 'oh, we're 25 years after the IOM report and we still have not ma...
Get your act together or else.
The United States, when we compare ourselves with other high-income countries, is right in the middle of the pack.
If I go into a hospital, is there public information--I'm getting surgery--about the level of infection at the hospital or other preventable...
We're going to do this all over the country.
We must create a more just and fair system that encourages discussions without requiring patients' rights in exchange.
And not only that, but from Massachusetts as well.
Public disclosure is a critical element to preventing these events from happening
Patients have been betrayed by the system in which they place their trust
Is it not true that many of these settlements will not be made public, that we don't know how many types of settlements have been made becau...
And we pay for that lack of information and knowledge later on.
I think we need to expand the efforts of the CDC.
If you don't have data and metrics, you don't know how you're doing, you don't know how you compare to anyone else.
It is clear to all of us that the VA faces many, many challenges, and they are well documented.
