adverse events Quotes

Accidents happen all the time.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

My childhood was extreme.

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7.

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies.

Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.

Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.