National Institute for Patient Rights |
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Protecting and Promoting Patient Rights |
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Q & A for Dr. Mark E. Meaney on: |
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1. You are the founder of the National Institute for Patient Rights (NIPR), could you tell us a bit about the social mission of NIPR?
2. Why did you write your latest book 3 Secrets Hospitals Don’t Want You to Know: How to Empower Patients?
3. Care to share those three secrets with our listeners?
4. In your book, you mention problems in hospitals associated with so-called ‘component management’ and ‘episodic intervention’ in healthcare delivery, tell us about them.
5. There are a significant number of ‘non-medical’ professionals in hospitals (you call them ‘embedded laypersons’), why are they there and what role can they serve in patient care?
6. Why do you say the delivery of healthcare is a matter of negotiation?
7. In your opinion, what is the most important patient right today?
8. How can patients and their families promote their rights without alienating their healthcare providers?
9. You define an ‘ethical conflict’ in healthcare delivery as between “good people who want to do the right thing for the right reasons who just plain disagree.” How can patients and their advocates recognize, mediate and resolve ethical conflicts with their providers?
10. In your book, you discuss some recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports out of the National Academy of Sciences on medical error, could you tell our listeners how patients and their advocates can deal with medical mistakes without necessarily resorting to or relying on lawyers? |
