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

The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community — in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities — sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly overnight?

Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement — and how an "epid...