Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine

Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement-and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to the emergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem: the rise in medical litigation and physicians' aversion to risk; institutional changes in the organiza...