To Err is Human

休み中は新聞もわりにゆっくり読める、というわけでNew York Timesを読んでいたら、Sanjay "CNN" Gupta氏による記事が目に止まりました。

More Treatment, More Mistakes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/opinion/more-treatment-more-mistakes.html

というわけでざっと読んでみたら特に目新しいことは書かれてなかったのですが、これで思い出したのがInstitute of Medicine
が１９９９年に発表した "To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System"です。

http://www.iom.edu/Reports/1999/To-Err-is-Human-Building-A-Safer-Health-System.aspx
Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be--and
can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people,
die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could
have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies.
という衝撃的なレポートですがもはや古典になりつつありますね。