562. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death
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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.

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).
• "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).

EXTRAS:

• "How to Succeed at Failing)," series by *Freakonomics Radio *(2023).
• "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).

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.