In other areas, we have seen new efforts to develop research priorities, new efforts to increase reporting of medical errors, and new efforts at addressing known error problems. Let's hope that the government will also help to assure that staffing and health care personnel issues that lead to a lot of the errors are also addressed. There is a major crisis brewing with nursing and pharmacists shortages in this country for example. We need new efforts to educate more health care practitioners and our schools need to specialize in training students about errors and error prevention. For example, in cooperation with FDA and our Institute, Temple University School of Pharmacy has developed a 12 credit certificate course in patient safety.
Students get the certificate along with their doctor of pharmacy degree.
We need to develop more experts like this. I feel the hospital and pediatrician were negligent in not testing my child prior to leaving the hospital. Where do I do I begin in finding reliable medical and legal information and people to pursue my problem. It could be increased reimbursement, better recognition, funneling patients to sites where technology is well used, etc. After all, this is costly not only in human terms but also financial terms.