PSAN in the News
PSAN member Madris Kindard quoted in article about Senators requesting the Government Accounting Office, a Congressional Watchdog, to investigate the FDA’s Oversight of Medical Device Recalls
January 17, 2024
Helen Haskell, president of Mothers Against Medical Errors and co-founder of the Patient Safety Action Network, was honored by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) with the Patient Engagement Award for Diagnosis
October 31, 2023
PSAN member Bob Oshel featured segment #4 of a WNYC podcast about dangerous doctors and the secrecy around them that puts patients at risk of harm
October 28, 2023
PSAN member Lisa McGiffert featured in Portland OR’s KGW series, “Sick Medicine,” on failure of state medical boards to oversee physicians who caused patient harm
October 20, 2023
PSAN member Wendy Knecht successfully pushes through a CA Law that requires doctors to notify patients about a website that tracks payments from drug and device companies.
February 3, 2023
Podcast about PSAN’s report on physician sexual misconduct featuring Carol Cronin and Lisa McGiffert Evaluating How Medical Boards Communicate about Physician Sexual Misconduct
November 8, 2022
PSAN advocate Lisa McGiffert was interviewed for articles about a South Side Chicago Hospital with a whistleblower complaint, a rash of fatalities, lawsuits and negative federal inspection report
October 12, 2022
PSAN member, Emily Patterson, was quoted in an article about a public hearing held by a NC public official: “I would suggest that nobody just follow the system, because it doesn’t work.” She has a child who had a ‘preventable adverse event’ in the state. “We were billed for it. We paid all the bills.” The family went around the nation seeking answers but only found layers upon layers of issues. She quoted from a book called Never Pay the First Bill, by medical journalist Marshall Allen. “(Allen) explains it best for me. He writes ‘The system isn’t broken. It’s working the way that it was intended to work: It’s wildly profitable, with CEOs making tens of millions of dollars.’”
September 8, 2022
Feds Want a Policy That Advocates Say Would Let Hospitals Off the Hook for Covid-Era Lapses, PSAN Members quoted
July 7, 2022
Patient Safety Is Heading in the Wrong Direction— CMS needs to strengthen, not erode, reporting standards and other safety measures
September 4, 2021
Is the FDA Failing Women?
September 2021
PSAN members participate in FDA meetings on industry user-fee negotiations.
July 16, 2021
Helen Haskell, Lisa McGiffert and Kevin Kavanagh, MD quoted in AZ Central news article about Medicare penalties
March 21, 2019
Helen Haskell and Lisa McGiffert quoted in Greenville News article about CDC concerns about MRSA rates.
March 6, 2019
ProPublica Entrusts its FB Patient Harm Community to PSAN
October 10, 2018
Lisa McGiffert is Bleeding Edge’s Hero Of The Week!
September 18, 2018
PSAN featured in California Healthline: Time for that colonoscopy? Probe your Doc first on how the scopes are cleaned.
July 23, 2018
PSAN featured in USA Today: Doctors, hospitals sue patients who post negative comments, reviews on social media
July 18, 2018
Advocate Alicia Cole delivers keynote address at this year’s APIC Annual Conference
June 14, 2018
PSAN mentioned in this Atlanta Journal Constitution article: In #MeToo era, AMA asked to confront doctors’ sexual misconduct
June 8, 2018
PSAN is featured in Consumer Reports Magazine!
June 8, 2018
CU and PSAN Announce PSAN Launch
January 31, 2018