60-minute interview transcripts, health and medicine homework help
View 2 60-minute interview transcripts for an interview that took place with host Steve Kroft and Dennis Quaid. The first is titled “Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins’ Drug Ordeal.” The second is titled: “Medical Errors Happen ‘Too Often’.”
- Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins’ Drug Ordeal: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/a-hollywood-family-takes-on-medical-mistakes/comment-page-4/?_r=0
- Read the interview (follow up) transcript to the video first done. “Medical Errors Happen ‘Too Often’”. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dennis-quaid-medical-errors-happen-too-often/
Once you have viewed/read both of the above transcripts, provide a summary answering the following questions:
- Discuss the adverse patient occurrences which took place.
- What preventive measures should have been taken to prevent the adverse patient occurrences?
- How can steps be taken to prevent these errors in the future?
- What is the role of the quality improvement program in error prevention?
