Bedside Manner: Advocating for a Relative in the Hospital (WSJ) WSJ Health Blog (free): Five Tips for Helping a Family Member in the Hospital I’ve written before about my questions of why so many hospitals abdicate their leadership responsibility for quality and patient safety, or at least offload much of it onto the patients. I think it’s wrong to put patients of the position of asking the providers if they’ve washed their hands. The hospital, … Continue reading Why Do Hospitals Have to Rely on Vigilant Patients and Families?