Today is My Son's Birthday
Today would
be my son’s birthday. If he were alive,
I’m guessing we would celebrate in some way.
Truthfully, I don’t miss him anymore and I’m not ashamed to admit that. I’m happy with my life. I have two perfect sons. Michael’s life, and death has given me a bigger
cause, so I think of him every day.
How many
people do we know who have said that the doctor made a mistake, a loved one died
from a preventable medical error, they have suffered their life with the aftereffects
of a hospital acquired infection?
Yet still, there
is no education for the general public about safe patient care. Books continue to come out on safe patient
care from medical professionals or injured people which is where we are
expected to be educated. Is the public
reading academic research on safe patient care? The public needs to be more responsible but we
won’t take that seriously until one day you too are saying, it happened to
me. Truth is, I don’t belong to a cancer
group or march to stop gun violence. It
hasn’t affected me or my family. Medical
error did. Michael died following his surgery
because of the doctor’s mistake.
Imagine a
campaign for all people to be more responsible for their own safety. As we buckle up on an airplane, we know to stop
at a red light, we learn early to stop, drop, and roll if we catch on
fire. Why not have 5 Steps to Safer
Health Care for your family to follow, for your employees to do, for your faith
community to help each other?
We do! www.TakeCHARGE.care In memory and in honor of all those who wish
they knew that they too could have done more, saved a loved one or spoke up.
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