Patients Speak Out Sign the Petition for Patient Safety Click here to sign PULSE - Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors - www.pulseamerica.org PULSE is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization working to improve patient safety and reduce the rate of medical errors using real life stories and experiences. Mothers Against Medical Errors (MAME) - Lewis Blackman, a healthy, gifted 15-year-old, underwent elective surgery at MUSC. In one of the state's most modern hospitals, he bled to death over 30 hours while those caring for him missed signs that he was in grave peril. Read More Michael Bennett - President of the Coalition for Patients' Rights (CPR). Mr. Bennett lost his father due to an infection he received at the hospital. Since then, CPR has worked diligently to pass Federal and State laws to reduce infections in hospitals so that other patients will not die from similarly preventable causes. Mr. Bennett is a nationally recognized patient safety advocate. John James PhD – Chief Toxicologist at the National Space Center, Dr. James lost his son following a medical error. Since then, Dr. James published his book, A Sea of Broken Hearts, for physicians to learn from this tragedy. Dr. James is a prominent member in America's Patient Safety Movement and works with the Institute of Medicine to find solutions to the epidemic of medical errors and complications. http://patientsafetyamerica.com Barbara (Bee) Becker - Ms. Becker is the Vice-President of Hospice Patients Alliance and is a devoted patient advocate who works tirelessly to help patients and families all over the USA. Ms. Becker's 83 year old mother, Helen, was assaulted in a nursing home and later died from the injuries. Ms. Becker testified to Congress on March 4, 2002. Donald M. Berwick, MD, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) spearheads the 5 Million Lives Campaign - an initiative to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years. Dialysis Patient Safety - Patients Help Pave the Road in Error Prevention Roberta Mikles, R.N. Read More When Doctors Become Patients, Time Magazine, April 20, 2006, by Nancy Gibbs and Amanda Bower - Read Article Concerned Citizens of Petersburg (CONCOP) - "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and most inhumane." -- The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (1966). www.concop.org Leap for Patient Safety - www.LeapforPatientSafety.org Dennis Quaid's two children victims of massive drug overdose at Cedars-Sinai Read More Consumers Union to Rate Hospitals - Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2008, by Anna Wilde Mathews Read Article Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center agrees to $1-million settlement for dumping patient on skid row - LA Times, May 31, 2008 Read Article Voice4Patients.com - "A Voice for Patients" has been designed to educate patients and consumers (potential users of the healthcare system) on the national epidemic of healthcare error. NPSF - National Patient Safety Foundation - www.npsf.org CAPS - Consumers Advocating Patient Safety - www.patientsafety.org Other Patient Advocacy Organizations