Two decades ago, Dr. Frederick S. Southwick witnessed the near demise of his wife, Mary, while she was a patient in a prominent academic medical center. Although he blamed Mary's individual physicians, who had cared for her for more than 15 years, Dr. Southwick realized that encouraging individual physicians to try harder was not the solution.In "Critically Ill," Mary's dramatic healthcare nightmare is used as a learning tool to reveal startling, dangerous flaws in our nation's current system of medical care and present a ...
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Two decades ago, Dr. Frederick S. Southwick witnessed the near demise of his wife, Mary, while she was a patient in a prominent academic medical center. Although he blamed Mary's individual physicians, who had cared for her for more than 15 years, Dr. Southwick realized that encouraging individual physicians to try harder was not the solution.In "Critically Ill," Mary's dramatic healthcare nightmare is used as a learning tool to reveal startling, dangerous flaws in our nation's current system of medical care and present a detailed five-point action plan to cure and change our healthcare delivery system. As he started searching for answers, Dr. Southwick realized that the outdated model of medical care in our country results in fragmented care, overwhelming inefficiency, and as many as 95,000 annual deaths due to preventable medical errors. Despite calls to action by the Institute of Medicine and many patient safety organizations, these statistics have persisted for more than a decade.
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