Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0%

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Your doctor can check your blood pressure, weight, A1C and cholesterol blood levels, foot complications, and other warning signs of risk factors for prediabetes or the development of worsening related symptoms for those with an existing diabetes diagnosis. Any delays caused by cybersecurity inevitably affect patient care negatively.

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems.

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JULY 9, 2021

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems.

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