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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

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. In New York City, Black women like Ms.

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Newsletter, November 2022

Patient Safety Movement

The federal government and the health sector must find a balanced approach to meet the dire threats, together as partners with shared responsibilities.” Hospitals currently rely on technology for everything, from setting appointments to doing tests, and clinicians need access to a patient’s medical records to make decisions on care.