In medicine, failure can be catastrophic. It can also produce discoveries that save millions of lives. Tales from the front line, the lab, and the I.T. department. <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451">Amy Edmondson</a>, professor of leadership management at Harvard Business School.</li><li><a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0033600001MfbNuAAJ/carole-hemmelgarn">Carole Hemmelgarn</a>, co-founder of Patients for Patient Safety U.S. and director of the Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership Master’s program at Georgetown University.</li><li><a href="https://www.gary-klein.com/welcome">Gary Klein</a>, cognitive psychologist and pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision making.</li><li><a href="https://langerlab.mit.edu/langer-bio/">Robert Langer</a>, institute professor and head of the Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</li><li><a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/john-van-reenen">John Van Reenen</a>, professor at the London School of Economics.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/45mpkoA">Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well</a>, by Amy Edmondson (2023).</li><li>“<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9724400/">Reconsidering the Application of Systems Thinking in Healthcare: The RaDonda Vaught Case</a>,” by Connor Lusk, Elise DeForest, Gabriel Segarra, David M. Neyens, James H. Abernathy III, and Ken Catchpole (British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2022).</li><li>"<a href="https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/28/estimates-preventable-hospital-deaths-are-too-high-new-study-shows">Estimates of preventable hospital deaths are too high, new study shows</a>," by Bill Hathaway (Yale News, 2020).</li><li>“<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2776873">Dispelling the Myth That Organizations Learn From Failure</a>,” by Jeffrey Ray (SSRN, 2016).</li><li>“<a href="https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx">A New, Evidence-Based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated With Hospital Care</a>,” by John T. James (Journal of Patient Safety, 2013).</li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/">To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System</a>, by the National Academy of Sciences (1999).</li><li>“<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/263797a0">Polymers for the Sustained Release of Proteins and Other Macromolecules</a>,” by Robert Langer and Judah Folkman (Nature, 1976).</li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-innovation-and-diffusion-podcast/id1708817309">The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast</a>, by John Van Reenen and Ruveyda Gozen.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/the-curious-brilliant-vanishing-mr-feynman/">The Curious, Brilliant, Vanishing Mr. Feynman</a>," series by Freakonomics Radio (2024).</li><li>“<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/will-a-covid-19-vaccine-change-the-future-of-medical-research-ep-430/">Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?</a>” by Freakonomics Radio (2020).</li><li>“<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-3-death-by-diagnosis/">Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis</a>,” by Freakonomics Radio (2016).</li></ul></li></ul>

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