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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).

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