Patient Safety

The world's leading safety experts share practical day-to-day solutions that combine the latest tools and technologies in healthcare today with the best safety practices from high-risk yet high-reliability industries, such as aviation, nuclear power, and the United States military. Using these field-tested methods, you can develop new leadership initiatives, educate workers on the universal skills that can save lives, organize and train safety action teams, implement reliability management systems, and create long-term, transformational change. 

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...

Every employee at every level wants to feel seen, heard, and respected. If we don’t feel safe, we can’t be our best selves or do our most creative work. This is why leaders must ensure psychological safety for everyone in their team. Whether you’re a manager, CEO, or entrepreneur, The Psychological Safety Playbook is the guide you need to lead your team to the highest levels of performance and innovation.

Recalling remarkable cases - and people - from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. Within the conditions of great stress and rapid decision-making that are routine in the ER, Dr. Seward tells us that medical staff must be more than technicians of the body: They must be restorers of the human.

Gripping medical nonfiction meets courtroom drama when fatal hospital errors shatter lives and demand legal justice. Perfect for an engaging commute, this tense narrative pulls you directly into the high-stakes hospital corridors where human fallibility collides with complex systems. You will...

Turn clinical frustrations into actionable patient safety solutions with this practical healthcare management toolkit. Perfect for your daily commute to the clinic, this empowering audio experience demystifies quality improvement for busy medical professionals. You will learn to bypass...

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.

Transform bedside frustrations into powerful healthcare leadership strategies that maximize patient safety. Perfect for your daily commute, this empowering listen shifts the focus from personal burnout to actionable system upgrades. Discover how everyday clinical challenges become opportunities...

Master clinical reasoning and confidently navigate medical uncertainty at the bedside with practical diagnostic logic. Whether you are commuting to a demanding hospital shift or decompressing after a high-stakes day in the clinic, this audio guide grounds you in calm, reflective decision-making...