Forbes November 23, 2024
Update, Nov. 23, 2024: This story has been updated with information about President-elect Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services nominees and the correct date of this summer’s assassination attempt on Trump.
When the Leapfrog Group issued its latest patient safety scores, I looked up the hospital to which Donald Trump was rushed bleeding after an assassination attempt in western Pennsylvania this past summer.
The now-president-elect was lucky in more ways than the obvious — that a high-powered rifle bullet barely missed his head. Butler Memorial Hospital, from which Trump was discharged safely late on the night of July 13, has a long history of above-average patient safety performance. Luck, though, should have nothing to do with avoiding treatment-caused harm.
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