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Helen Haskell’s keynote address at the Sixth Annual Quality Colloquium - “The Leading Forum on Patient Safety, Quality Enhancement and Medical Error Reduction.”

See the compelling video of Helen’s personal story from the perspective of a parent who lost a child to medical error. Helen provides a well constructed synopsis of a lethal medication error with a detailed analysis of what went wrong and why.

Helen discusses the concepts of full disclosure, patient’s emotional needs, root causes of errors, patient expectations and the lessons learned from the loss of her son, Lewis Wardlaw Blackman.

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