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Patient Safety
Silence vs
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Silenced
White wall
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Silencing
Conflict Of
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Psychology of
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Subjectivity
Blacklisting  
Nurse survey
Loyalty
Mobbing and
    bullying
Trust Us
Defensive
    documenting
Report Rate
Risk
    managemnt
SOAP
Management
Hospitals
Crime in
    medicine
Sexual Abuse
Liability
    Limitations
Free Speech
    for Patients
Exploitation

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Medical
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Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would choose to have newspapers.

In medicine we have government without newspapers. Patients cannot find out what they need to know to make informed choices. No one in medicine records or reports the information patients need to know the most. So patients will have to.

Studdert

3% of injured patients can get lawyers

Harvard researcher Dr. David Studdert in a 1999 study of 14,700 medical charts found that of the patients who suffered negligent injury, 97% did not sue.

However, Studdert studied only grievances of which a record had been made in medical charts. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (and others, see Medical Reporting) only 2% of adverse events are reported accurately by health care professionals. What Studdert is saying is that of the 2% of patients whose injuries are accurately reported in medical charts, 3% can get lawyers. 2% of 3% is .0006%. So of the patients with legitimate grievances, .0006% file suits. When the numbers are so small, does it matter exactly where the decimal is? It is so close to zero.

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