Angry - Part 2
A few recent developments have set me off balance: The WSJ OpEd piece, a collection of health risk managers, and a group of fellow heart moms who successfully diminished the impact of my son's loss and the work I did in seven years to understand his death and offer compassion to his medical providers. I am reminded that the health care system has known about the life-threatening issues within its profession for well over ten years. They know them so well the common comparison is made to air travel. The amount of deaths each year to preventable medical errors is equal to a jumbo jet crashing every day leaving no survivors. This brought memory of the words of Susan Cohen. Her daughter, Theo, was one of the passengers killed on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1998. "There was the grief group therapist who told me she was worried about my anger, that I should open my heart. .... It was an open, bleeding wound......I didn't need anyone telling me there was something wrong with my enorm...