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Life with Health—Staying Alive! Managing Medical Error In and Out of the Hospital

In the United States each year, there are more than 100,000 avoidable deaths in hospitals caused by medical errors. How does this happen? How are such errors reported? What is being done to prevent future deadly mistakes? What can individual patients and families do to try to minimize the chance of suffering from such errors? This participatory presentation will discuss these matters, with case examples.

TERRY PERLIN is a clinical ethics consultant at hospitals in New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio and San Francisco. He has taught at several medical schools and presently is an Intensive Care Unit consultant. He is the author of Clinical Medical Ethics: Cases in Practice. He serves as president of End of Life Choices New York.

Entry to our 100-year-old building and meeting rooms is available for most wheelchair users with prior arrangements. Please call ahead (212-874-5210 x107) for setup of our portable system and plan to arrive one hour before start time.











When: Sun., May. 31, 2015 at 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W. 64th St.
212-874-5210
Price: Free
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In the United States each year, there are more than 100,000 avoidable deaths in hospitals caused by medical errors. How does this happen? How are such errors reported? What is being done to prevent future deadly mistakes? What can individual patients and families do to try to minimize the chance of suffering from such errors? This participatory presentation will discuss these matters, with case examples.

TERRY PERLIN is a clinical ethics consultant at hospitals in New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio and San Francisco. He has taught at several medical schools and presently is an Intensive Care Unit consultant. He is the author of Clinical Medical Ethics: Cases in Practice. He serves as president of End of Life Choices New York.

Entry to our 100-year-old building and meeting rooms is available for most wheelchair users with prior arrangements. Please call ahead (212-874-5210 x107) for setup of our portable system and plan to arrive one hour before start time.

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