Blog spotlight: Providence-based play tackles medical errors

Patient Safety Monitor Alert

• Email|
• Print|
• Subscribe|
• View Archives

February 1, 2012

Providence has dealt with its share of medical errors. Perhaps as a result, the issue is moving outside the health system and into artistic realm in the form of Love Alone, presented by the Trinity Reparatory Company.

Written by Deborah Salem Smith, whose partner is a physician, the play dives into the emotional turmoil of what happens after patient Susan dies on the operating table. The emotions of both family and physician are explored, along with the disconnect between hospital protocol toward the shocked and grieving family.

To read the rest of this blog post, visit the Patient Safety Monitor blog.