In this episode of Critical Matters, we discuss medical errors in healthcare. Our guest is Dr. Nitin Puri, a practicing intensivist and medical educator at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and the Cooper Health System in Camden, New Jersey. We discuss a range of topics related to medical errors in critical care medicine including the incidence of errors in our practice, causes, how to prevent them, and how we should deal with them when they occur.

Additional Resources

• To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The landmark publication y the Institute of Medicine highlighting medical errors as a critical cause of deaths in the US healthcare system: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25077248


• Medical error – the third leading cause of death in the US: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27143499

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• Haroun and the Sea of Stories:  https://www.amazon.com/Haroun-Sea-Stories-Salman-Rushdie/dp/0140157379/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8


• Invisible Man: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Vintage-International-Ralph-Ellison-ebook/dp/B003WUYR9K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1525281632&sr=8-2&keywords=invisible+man+ralph+ellison