Tag: Quaid

Rather than Blaming Employees, Managers Must Take Responsibility for Problems –...

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Eight years ago today, I published a piece originally on LinkedIn as part of their "Influencers" series: Rather than Blaming Employees, Managers Must Take Responsibility...

The Oscars, An Embarrassing Preventable Error, #Lean, and Process Improvement

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Alternative headline: “Poorly Designed Card Trips Up Beatty and Dunaway at The Oscars.” Or “A Bad Process Beats Warren Beatty Every Time.” What are the Lean lessons from this mistake?

Let’s Sign Documents Promising Not to Make Errors?

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You might remember me blogging about the Indianapolis incident where three babies died after being mistakenly  given an adult dose of heparin back in...

Distracted Driving Deaths Distract Us from Medical Error Deaths?

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The general public still, generally speaking, doesn't realize how much preventable harm and death occurs in healthcare each year. Efforts like the Dennis Quaid...

Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary

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I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others --   "Chasing Zero: Winning the...

Dennis Quaid and Patient Safety – Upcoming Documentary

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You might be familiar with the case where the actor Dennis Quaid's twins were harmed by an overdose at the famed Cedar-Sinai Hospital in...

Pathology Mistakes (Again) on Oprah and in the News

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After watching and blogging about the first half of Oprah's medical errors show that featured the story of Dennis Quaid's kids, I finally got...

Dennis Quaid and a Discussion of Medical Mistakes Coming Up on...

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Dennis Quaid Takes Oprah To Hospital That OD'd His Babies This might be the first time I'm DVR-ing the Oprah show. Tomorrow, actor Dennis Quaid...

Dennis Quaid on 60 Minutes

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Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins' Drug Ordeal, Actor Tells 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Medical Errors Kill Thousands - CBS News Did you see the actor Dennis...

Quaid Case Update: Whose Responsibility is Standardized Work?

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If you're a regular reader, you might recall the Cedar-Sinai medical error that harmed Dennis Quad's twins (and others). Quaid and his wife are now...

Updated: How Often Must the Same Mistake Be Repeated?

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Dennis Quaid's newborns reportedly harmed by medical mix-up - Los Angeles Times (Updated 4:57 PM, again at 9:51 PM, see bottom of post) If this story...