Patient Safety Forum and Screening of Money-Driven Medicine in Washington D.C. Tuesday, Nov 17

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Consumers Union's “Safe Patient Project” is hosting a Patient Safety Forum at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C. (1330 G Street, NW) Tuesday, November 17, 10 a.m. – 3:30.

  

The forum marks the 10-year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) study on medical errors, “To Err Is Human.”  Consumers Union  explains: “Unlike most anniversaries, we’re not gathering advocates, journalists and policymakers to celebrate–we’re gathering to call attention to the fact that we find ourselves asking the same question the IOM asked 10 years ago: ‘Must we wait another decade to be safe in our health system?’” 

 

I’ll be speaking at the forum.  The conferencewill be webcast live for online viewing. For more information on the forum and the webcast, go to  http://www.safepatientproject.org/2009/11/delaying_is_deadlyjoin_our_pat.html 

 

 

Following the forum there will be a reception from 3:30 to 5.

 

At 5:00 Consumers Union is hosting a free screening of Money-Driven Medicine, the film based on my book, produced by Alex Gibney,  the Academy-Award winning documentarian best known for “Taxi to the Dark Side” and “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. ”  I’ll be answering questions following the film.  

 

(Kaiser Family Foundation: 1330 G St. NW, Washington DC)  If you want to attend the screening, please RSVP here http://cu.convio.net/site/PageNavigator/spp_MDM_DC   Seating is limited.

2 thoughts on “Patient Safety Forum and Screening of Money-Driven Medicine in Washington D.C. Tuesday, Nov 17”

  1. I came upon this just today, which is the day of the screening of the film. I find your concept that money is driving health care and medicine quite interesting, as I’ve been reading a book decrying the lack of patient-driven health care, “Time to Care,” about, personal medicine in this technological age we live in. Dr. Norman Makous (cardiologist) has practiced for decades — and he talks about how, even though we’ve had incredible growth in technology that’s effective in treating conditions, we’ve lost the very important aspect of medicine (and an effective one) that starts in the personal relationship between doctor and patient. It’s all part of providing an effective treatment — and the book has a bunch of case anecdotes that illustrate how much patients value this doctor-patient relationship. It’s an important part of medicine that seems to be missing from the current debate over health care. The book is a great, additional analysis of the health system today.

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