Click here to return to book details FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Email: publicity@regnery.com Phone: 202-216-0600 PREVENTABLE MEDICAL ERRORS HAPPEN AS FREQUENTLY AS IF A 747 CRASHED AT O’HARE AIRPORT EVERY DAY Author Rosemary Gibson exposes the cover-up of medical mistakes in our health care system and what can be done to prevent them If a 747 crashed every day at Chicago O’Hare Airport, would the FAA step in immediately and shut down the airport? Of course. But the equivalent number of people die every day from medical mistakes and what happens? Nothing. More people die from medical errors than breast cancer, AIDS, and traffic accidents combined, and the medical establishment is covering it up by not reporting errors, by deliberately altering medical records, by keeping information out of medical charts, and even by refusing to perform autopsies. Rosemary Gibson is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), one of the nation’s leading health care foundations, and has spent over 20 years working with doctors, nurses and health care officials to improve health care for Americans. In her book, WALL OF SILENCE: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of Americans (LifeLine Press), she reveals how the most accurate information on medical errors is more than ten years old! Currently, no private or government agencies keep track of the number of deaths from errors — no one’s counting, no one’s accountable, and no one’s in charge of preventing these man-made deaths. Gibson, a personal witness to medical error and a professional advocate for better patient care, reports, “Half of all medical residents have witnessed falsification of records during their medical training. ”When a health care official reports a medical error, they suffer intimidation. They lose their standing, their status and are ostracized. An impenetrable culture of silence has developed and there is an immediate urgency for mandatory reporting of medical errors.”   WALL OF SILENCE gives a frightening picture of the inner workings of the health care system and for the first time exposes the cover-up, and explains why it’s necessary to have accountability for medical errors. As Gibson says, “If we don’t count how often injuries and deaths occur, and if no one’s in charge, we’ll have another 1 million people dying in the next decade.” Rosemary Gibson is a leader in health care innovation. Through her work at RWJF, she has implemented education and training programs for physicians and nurses at some of the country’s most prestigious hospitals and medical and nursing schools, including Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She was instrumental in developing the PBS documentary, On Our Own Terms, with Bill Moyers. Click here to order from Amazon:   Click here to return to book details