Health care law (including regulatory and compliance issues, public health law, medical ethics, and life sciences), with digressions into constitutional law, statutory interpretation, poetry, and other things that matter
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Medical error at a children's hospital
The Boston Globe has printed another good article on the recent deaths at the local children's hospital, this time focusing on the systemic, root causes (still a matter of conjecture) and considering whether there's something in the culture of teaching hospitals -- or at least some of them -- that stands in the way of effective communication, accountability, appropriate decision making, and safe system design. Important questions all.
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