One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals have adopted practices that discuss medical mistakes and offer support to the people who must cope with the often tragic consequences. In this episode, why experts are calling on the Biden Administration to make patient safety a national priority.

Episode Guests:
Jack Gentry, patient
Naomi Kirtner and Jeff Goldenberg, patient’s family
Tom Gallagher, MD, Physician and researcher at the University of Washington
Stephen Kuracheck, MD, Physician
Julie Morath, member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

About Tradeoffs:
Founded in 2019 by former Senior Health Care Reporter at Marketplace, Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs is an award winning nonprofit media company on a mission to help the folks on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy. We produce podcast episodes, articles, newsletters and live events that combine data and evidence and storytelling to help health care decision-makers better understand the complicated, costly and often counterintuitive world of health care. The Tradeoffs audience is made up of important decision-makers in health policy, and our work has been listened to more than 3 million times and is taught in more than 50 colleges and universities.