Product Description

This book is a tour de force, and no one but John Nance could have written it. He, alone, masters in one mind the fields of aviation, health care safety, medical malpractice law, organizational sociology, media communication, and, as if that were not enough, the art of fine writing. Only he could have made sophisticated, scientifically disciplined instruction about the nature and roots of safety into a page-turner. Medical care has a ton yet to learn from the decades of progress that have brought aviation to unprecedented levels of safety, and, in instructing us all about those lessons, John Nance is not just a bridge-builder he is the bridge. This book should be required reading for anyone willing to face the facts about what it will take for health care to be as safe as it truly can be. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP President and CEO Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16504 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 225 pages

Customer Reviews

A sound approach to helping Medicine achieve fewer mishaps
I just finished this book today and highly recommend it to anyone interested in knowing more about medicine, hospitals, and patient care. Doctors have been under fire from many different groups to perform the impossible -- save everyone and do it cheaply. Doctors, HMO's, lawyers, patients, and government each have a hand in the state of our health care system. This book outlines a sound approach to helping medicine achieve a better safety record and ultimately, better patient outcomes. This is a must read for any medical professional or interested party and I would love to see St. Michaels in my neighborhood. Well done -- and long overdue. Aviation safety has many things to teach us -- can we implement these ideas? Or maybe the question is, "Can we afford not to?"

Why Hospitals Shoulf Fly
The best book I hve ever read, fiction or nonfiction. It makes you want to ask your hospital CEO, "have you read this book" and why aren't we doing it yet.

Excellent Insight - All hospitals should be like this
I wanted to take a moment to reflect that this book "Why hospitals should fly", along with another "Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young and Each Other" are perhaps the key tools aside from the human factor approach, that have stirred enthusiasm and created impetus for our organization to change its ways. We as a hospital have suffered from errors in the past, and what hospital hasn't. However with a wonderful week of seminars and guidance from the authors, we are reaching out to our employees to empower them to foster the changes necessary to bring an end to errors due to communication, increase teamwork, espirit de corps and generally allow the organization to learn. Thanks to John and Kathleen..........Brilliant.....