Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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Mozilla Firefox Start Page Help. I'm new to blogging so this is just a test to see if/where it goes. I had started a google blog yesterday regarding my mother's fatal hospitalization and anticipated posting of various components of her hospital record and subsequent court record, to begin a dialogue with patients,hospitals, Medicare, health care providers, health care professionals, academia, research organizations, non-profits,the government etc. to ensure true accountable care ,transparency and responsibility for patient safety. When I was in grade school in the fifties we had a ditty engrained in our brain, "Safety First, Safety always,On the Stairs and in the Hallways." Maybe the hospitals need to have a version of this engrained in their collective corporate brain since systemic invitations to error are endemnic in the hospital corporate environment where too often, patients become "collateral damage"A Latin phrase comes to mind. Sine Qua non", without which nothing. If safety (first,do no harm) is not the primary consideration, and systems are not in place to ensure that at least the patient leaves the hospital in no worse condition then he or she came there, what is the point? Is anyone out there who is reading this. I need lots of help to get the message out. Patients and/or their mourners have to come out of the closet and demand changes by providing the transparency that is the bane of special interest protection.