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Coverage of the Common Good and University of Wyoming College of Law Symposium April 3, 2008 To improve patient safety, Dr. Allen Kachalia told conference participants that health care needs a systems level of improvement, not an individual level; an increased culture of safety; more detailed data on errors; and greater transparency of what goes on when an error occurs. -- The Casper Star-Tribune
The legal-malpractice system links compensation with accountability the way it works now, said Ed Dauer, of the University of Denver law school. This needs to change, Dauer said. "A patient can't get compensation if the doctor doesn't lose," said Dauer, who is currently president of the Colorado branch of Common Good, a bipartisan legal and health care reform coalition. "It creates an adversarial posture." -- The Billings Gazette
"Twenty-five years ago, we thought it was so simple," Dr. Dennis O'Leary, past president of the Joint Commission, said Wednesday evening in Laramie. "We thought errors came from bad doctors. We were quite naive." The problem is at a system level, he said. "Humans will always make errors," O'Leary said. "The challenge is to make sure inevitable human errors never reach the patient." -- The Billings Gazette
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