How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death (Update)
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In medicine, failure can be catastrophic. It can also produce discoveries that save millions of lives. Tales from the front line, the lab, and the I.T. department.

• SOURCES:

• Amy Edmondson), professor of leadership management at Harvard Business School.

• Carole Hemmelgarn), co-founder of Patients for Patient Safety U.S. and director of the Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership Master’s program at Georgetown University.

• Gary Klein), cognitive psychologist and pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision making.

• Robert Langer), institute professor and head of the Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• John Van Reenen), professor at the London School of Economics.

• RESOURCES:

• Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well)*, *by Amy Edmondson (2023).

• “Reconsidering the Application of Systems Thinking in Healthcare: The RaDonda Vaught Case),” by Connor Lusk, Elise DeForest, Gabriel Segarra, David M. Neyens, James H. Abernathy III, and Ken Catchpole (*British Journal of Anaesthesia, *2022).

• "Estimates of preventable hospital deaths are too high, new study shows)," by Bill Hathaway (Yale News, 2020).

• “Dispelling the Myth That Organizations Learn From Failure),” by Jeffrey Ray (*SSRN, *2016).

• “A New, Evidence-Based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated With Hospital Care),” by John T. James (*Journal of Patient Safety, *2013).

• To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System)*, *by the National Academy of Sciences (1999).

• “Polymers for the Sustained Release of Proteins and Other Macromolecules),” by Robert Langer and Judah Folkman (*Nature, *1976).

• The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast)*, *by John Van Reenen and Ruveyda Gozen.

• EXTRAS:

• "The Curious, Brilliant, Vanishing Mr. Feynman)," series by *Freakonomics Radio *(2024).

• “Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?)” by *Freakonomics Radio *(2020).

• “Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis),” by *Freakonomics Radio *(2016).