Patient safety is a critical issue in medicine today. There is, rightly, a strong emphasis on systems approaches to improving medical care and decreasing error. However, medicine is fundamentally a human endeavor. Without attention to the human aspects of the medical enterprise\u2014emotions, cognitive abilities, biases, communication\u2014crucial aspects of patient safety will remain beyond our grasp.<\/p>\n
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CME Objectives: At the end of this lecture participants should be better able to:<\/p>\n
1. Describe how the culture of medicine can endanger the health and safety of patients.<\/p>\n
2. Explain the role of emotions, cognition, and communication regarding medical error.<\/p>\n
3. Explore opportunities to improve the delivery of care while navigating an imperfect health care environment.<\/p>\n
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This session is part of a combined Grand Rounds for the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development’s Wellness Expo.<\/p>\n
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Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, D.Litt (Hon), FACP<\/p>\n
Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine<\/p>\n
Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review<\/p>\n
Author of \u201cWhat Patients Say, What Doctors Hear,\u201d<\/em> and the forthcoming \u201cWhen We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patient safety is a critical issue in medicine today. There is, rightly, a strong emphasis on systems approaches to improving medical care and decreasing error. However, medicine is fundamentally a human endeavor. Without attention to the human aspects of the medical enterprise\u2014emotions, cognitive abilities, biases, communication\u2014crucial aspects of patient safety will remain beyond our grasp. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102342,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-10992","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10992"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=10992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This is an AOE-endorsed event, so it can count towards the AOE membership requirement.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n