Are We Looking A Gift Horse in the Mouth? The Answers Are in the Room

First thank you to The Doctors Company Foundation and MedStar Health for your investment in patient safety and quality. The students and faculty and staff are amazing.

This is the third Marseille experience as a facilitator and I am so glad that this important work has come to my home state of California. The students and faculty are the best that health care has to offer and I have no doubt that the learning that emerges from their conversations can lead to the transformation that needs to happen. At the same time I am troubled by conversations I have heard in the past few days about how how national and local leaders are turning their eyes away from patient safety, and that “safety” is not a popular word in health care board rooms. Leaders of the collective wisdom have taught me that there are practices to address this leadership indifference.… Continue reading →