Author Archives: Admin

The leaders of the Massachusetts’ Disclosure Progam — Dr. Alan Woodward and Dr. Kenneth Sands —- were interviewed over the weekend on Pat Rullo’s show.  To hear a tape recording of the show, click here.   This is a great chance … Continue reading →

Lots of docs are selling their practices today…and who can blame them?  These men and women are mostly trained as scientists, not small business people.  They want to treat patients and families, not hire staff, chase insurance companies for money, and … Continue reading →

I write this e-mail as I am traveling home from a Sorry Works! presentation for a Western hospital.  On a Saturday morning I had a room full of 40+ docs and we discussed disclosure for nearly two hours.  It was a great … Continue reading →

Two days ago (May 19th) Sorry Works! shared the story of Dale Ann Micalizzi and her yearning for an apology from the hospital where her son died 12 years after his death.  In asking permission from Dale to share her story … Continue reading →

On Monday of last week (May 13th), Sorry Works! invited Leilani Schweitzer to tell her story of disclosure after the death of her son to medical errors and how she now works with the hospital (Stanford Medical Center) on disclosure cases.   … Continue reading →

I recently watched a YouTube video of Leilani Schweitzer speaking at a TED Conference.   Leialni lost her son to medical errors at Children’s Hospital at Stanford University.  In her video, Leilani described the death of her son, what disclosure meant … Continue reading →

  A St. Louis hospital publicly apologized yesterday for a wrong-side surgery that happened on April 4, 2013.  Fifty-three old Regina Turner suffered from mini-strokes and was scheduled for a “left-sided craniotomy bypass” to prevent future strokes, but, instead she … Continue reading →

I have heard some variation of the following countless times, usually from defense lawyers: “I don’t want some doctor apologizing and admitting fault at 2am in the morning when it was just a known complication or nothing we could have … Continue reading →

So…put yourself in the family’s shoes with this one. Their loved one whom they thought was going in the hospital for a “minor procedure” suffered a major adverse event and is hospitalized for an indefinite time period. The patient may … Continue reading →

This hit the news wires yesterday: Brigham and Women’s is now publicly airing their medical mistakes. Very powerful story which can be found here. This is another example of the disclosure movement gaining steam, and the folks in Massachusetts doing … Continue reading →