Michael L. Millenson is the author of the groundbreaking book Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age and president of Health Quality Advisors.
campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania to a nearby hospital. Update, Nov. 23, 2024: This story has been updated with information about President-elect Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services nominees and the correct date of this summer’s assassination attempt on Trump.
The now-president-elect was lucky in more ways than the obvious — that a high-powered rifle bullet barely missed his head. Butler Memorial Hospital, from which Trump was discharged safely late on the night of July 13, has a long history of above-average patient safety performance. Luck, though, should have nothing to do with avoiding treatment-caused harm.
Patient safety came to the policy fore almost exactly 25 years ago. During the slow news period after Thanksgiving 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report declaring that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans were being killed every year by preventable medical errors in hospitals. The errors also added financial costs of $17 billion to $29 billion.
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