Category: Error Analysis

My Clinical Wish List: A Portable MAR for Respiratory Therapy

By Gayle Porter
December 8, 2023

I recently visited a big box store to buy groceries while I host our family from out of town. The best part of this trip was that I was

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Discharge Apology

By Gayle Porter
November 10, 2023

We had the unlucky privilege of going to the Emergency Department last week and were surprised by some of the developments in local emergency care: First, there was a

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Can Error Reports Help Our Patients?

By Gayle Porter
September 29, 2023

Robust error reporting has done wonders for the health industry. We no longer need to guess when a problem could occur. Most clinical staff carry a mental list of

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“Help, I Need a Bureaucrat!” A Healthcare Comedy.

By Gayle Porter
August 29, 2023

“Oh my, are you bleeding?” The nurse stood with her hands on her hips, assessing the situation. “Well, yes. I think so,” the patient replied. “I tried pressing the

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It’s Time to Retire the Lunch & Learn

By Gayle Porter
July 17, 2023

Have you ever noticed that the persistent problems affecting our patients today are the self-same problems that we were facing 20 years ago? Back in 1999, To Err is

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Failure & Evaluation in Healthcare

By Gayle Porter
April 7, 2023

Thomas Edison had 1,093 patents for his inventions. The successful ones like the lightbulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera changed the world, but who has heard of

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