940 Patient Safety Lessons from the Skies
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Worldwide attention has been riveted on the fate of a Malaysian Airlines jet with 239 people on board. Since flight 370 disappeared on March 8, more than 16,000 people have died as a result of health care harm. Why aren’t we paying more attention? We talk with two experts on what health care could learn from aviation with regard to safety.
For years, we have all been told to stay away from saturated fat. It was assumed that that sat fat raises cholesterol, clogs arteries and contributes to heart disease. Now a meta-analysis covering more than 600,000 people suggests that sat fat is NOT associated with heart disease. What other dietary dogma will need rethinking next?
An editorial critical of the sat-fat meta-analysis was posted Monday, March 24, 2014, on the Science website.
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Guests: Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, is a national consultant and speaker on patient safety. Her books include Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication; Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young and Each Other; and Charting the Course: Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare, co-authored with her husband John Nance. Her website is http://www.kathleenbartholomew.com/
John Nance, JD, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force and a pilot in commercial aviation. He is an internationally recognized broadcast analyst and advocate for both aviation and health care safety. His books include Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care and Charting the Course: Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare, co-authored with his wife Kathleen Bartholomew.
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| 0:29.6 | Since Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared two weeks ago, |
| 0:33.7 | world attention has been focused on the missing plane. |
| 0:36.8 | Are there lessons for health care? |
| 0:39.1 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:49.1 | Media coverage of Flight 370 has been nonstop for two weeks. |
| 0:53.5 | 26 countries have been searching for the missing plane. |
| 0:56.6 | Why are we so troubled by airline disasters but oblivious to medical mistakes? |
| 1:01.7 | During the time that Flight 370 has been missing, over 14,000 people died from health care harm. |
| 1:08.2 | That's equal to 50 jumbo jets. |
| 1:11.2 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, |
| 1:13.2 | we talk with aviation analyst John Nance and Nurse Kathleen Bartholomew |
| 1:17.5 | about what the airline industry can teach us about patient safety. |
| 1:24.1 | First, this news. |
| 1:28.7 | In the People's Pharm health headlines, epidemiologists have questioned the validity of standard dietary advice to avoid saturated fat for the sake of heart health. |
| 1:39.1 | Over the last several decades, nutrition experts, dietitians, and cardiologists have warned Americans to cut back on |
| 1:45.9 | sat fat found in meat, butter, cheese, whole milk, and coconut. The theory was that saturated |
| 1:51.6 | fat would raise cholesterol in clog arteries, leading to heart attacks and strokes. |
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