14 September 2005
The
Internal Bleeding:
What Must We Know and Do
to Cure Our Epidemic of Medical Mistakes?
Robert Wachter, M.D., Chief, Medical Service,
Margaret Plews-Ogan, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, UVA
Why are errors so common in American medicine? How do they happen? Who is endangered when mistakes happen? Who is responsible? What needs to be done to cure this troubling epidemic? Drawing on personal experience and extensive research, physician Dr. Robert Wachter has written powerfully on mistakes in medicine in Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (co-authored with K. Shojania).
Co-presented with the Department of Internal Medicine