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Things we have the e-Patients. Hospitals

Lately I have called attention to several posts published in e-patients.net . I recommend that you read, if you lose them:

In the first of them refer to an article published in Annals of Internal Medicine , which reflected the curious case of patients with a stent CADIAC convinced that this was to prevent another heart attack suffered. However, all that doctors had told them is that it may relieve them of chest pain in the future. Do you only hear what we hear ?

In the other, stand a couple of comments to an interesting debate about patient safety in the blog Running a hospital :

• Jim Conway " Our systems are too complex to expect people to play their extraordinary work perfectly 100% of the time. As leaders, we must implement systems to support a great practice by people who are human and comenterán errors. "
• In a patient who underwent two surgical errors ten months: "After months suffering the system, I finally had the opportunity to speak with the surgeon. The words had more sense were those describing how bad he felt also that incident we both share in the OR. At last was not alone. "

And so the e-patient Dave concludes: " It breaks my heart to think that the good lives that are ruined by our cultural inability to deal honestly with the mistakes that happen in complex environments. "

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What the doctor says and what the patient hears.