Leape

Health care, says Dr. Lucian Leape, a pioneer in patient safety and chair of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation in Boston, "remains fundamentally unsafe."

Do No Harm 2010

Earlier this year, Leape published a report saying med schools are failing to teach future physicians the most urgent lessons about why mistakes happen and how to prevent them.

Do No Harm 2010

"On the surface, this seems pretty obvious, and yet this is a radical idea," says Leape.

Do No Harm 2010

Leape acknowledges that doctors are reluctant to admit errors because of the threat of malpractice suits -- about 60,000 filed every year.

Two Feet Of Mistakes 2008

"Most of us are propping up our current lifestyles, and our economic growth, by drawing (and increasingly overdrawing) upon the ecological capital of other parts of the world," Leape writes.

Josie Garthwaite: Brother, Can You Spare a Planet? 2008

Leape is adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Disclose, Apologize, Explain 2007

"This provides confirming evidence for what more and more health policy thinkers have been saying, which is, 'The American health care system is quietly imploding, and it's about time we did something about it,'" said Lucian L. Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health.

"quietly imploding" 2005

"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us," Leape, an American, said in Beijing.

Archive 2006-10-01 Mac 2006

QUOTATION: Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.

Quotations 1919

The River Can wch gives name to the town is pretty Large but full of Rocks and stones that makes shelves and falls in the water, its stor'd wth plenty of good ffish and there are great ffalls of water partly naturall and added to by putting more stones in manner of Wyers, at wch they Catch Salmon when they Leape with speares.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888