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Dr. Wachter talks about patient safety

Robert Wachter, MD, FHM, discusses the anniversary of the IOM report, To Err is Human and how hospital medicine has helped hospitals reduce medical mistakes.

Robert Wachter, MD, FHM, chief of the hospitalist division, professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, former SHM president, and author of the blog "Wachter's World," is outspoken in his belief that hospital medicine should be one the solutions to medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals.

 

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