Health Care & Hospital Law
Sep. 28, 2012
Health care safety and the culture of silence
From their earliest days in training, both doctors and nurses are taught to not discuss or even question medical mistakes that they know occur every day in hospitals.
Bruce G. Fagel
Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & AssociatesPhone: (310) 516-9035
Email: brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Whittier College School of Law
Bruce G. Fagel is licensed to practice medicine and is founder of the Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. He served as a consultant on medical malpractice law to the California Judicial Counsel Committee, which wrote the new CACI jury instructions. He can be reached at brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Two articles from opposite ends of the political spectrum were published about health care in the same week. Newsweek's article in their Sept. 24 magazine was titled "Hospitals Can Kill You," and the Wall Street Journal article on Sept. 22 was titled "How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us." Both were written by Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, and were based on his book published earlier this year called "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Rev...
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