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Mary Helen Harris

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PubMed2004

To err is human--the fallible physician.

A 1999 report published by the Institute of Medicine shocked our nation's citizens and health care providers. This report, entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, suggested that as many as 98,000 people die each year in the United States as a result of medical errors, making medical errors the 8th-leading cause of death. By comparison, Americans are much less likely to die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. More Americans die annually from medication errors alone than from workplace injuries. Not all errors are fatal ones, of course. An error may cause only temporary problems or disability, or may have no consequence at all. Errors may be due to mistakes made by individual health care providers, or may be due to faulty or inefficient processes in organizations and other health care delivery systems. This editorial will focus on the inevitability of physician fallibility, two causes of individual provider errors, and suggestions for strategies that should be considered by health care providers in an attempt to reduce errors. Next month we will look at the efforts made by hospitals in order to improve patient safety, and how these efforts impact physician practice.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed2004

Healers at war.

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Humans↗
PubMed2003

La Vie Bohème.

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Humans↗
PubMed2003

Pain barriers.

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Analgesia, Obstetrical↗
PubMed2002

Providing crisis counselors on-site to victims of domestic violence in the emergency department: a report of a local pilot project.

In order to facilitate appropriate referral and aftercare for victims of domestic violence who present to Sioux Falls hospital emergency departments, Children's Inn (a local domestic violence shelter) and city hospitals collaborated to develop a program to provide crisis counselors to these patients during their ED visits. This program, which has been in place for over two years, has provided services to 63 patients. These services include on-site counseling to the victims, assistance with filling out protection orders and with making police reports, and referral of many of the women to shelter and/or support groups. Having the crisis counselors meet and talk with these patients during the ED visit has facilitated the provision of these services to victims who otherwise may have been unable or hesitant to avail themselves of local resources.

Battered Women↗