Thank you Dave for your tireless commitment to change. As we look back 10 years and stand with you as you remember Greg, we know that you are making a difference in your effort to keep others from ‘falling through the cracks.’ Those of us who are also trying to contribute to changing the outcome for so many recognize that we must all stand together. Ten years from now, my hope and my prayer is that ‘we’ have become so many more. Ten years from now I hope and I pray that the health system will be architected by a coalition of dreamers who, like you who recognized what needed to be done, stepped up, and changed the world. The world should never under estimate the power of a dreamer.
Your committment to honour Greg’s passing by focusing on improving the system is inspirational. Most people that have been wronged would point fingers, lay blame, and do their level best to destroy the system that destroyed their family. I’ll admit, Dave, that is how i felt after I read the report and saw the movie about Greg. I’ve never seen you or Teri take a destructive approach to the health system and I’ve learned from that. Your desire to work to better the health system so that others will not suffer the same fate as Greg is truly filled with love and honour of the man that [I’ve heard] Greg was. Amazing and thank you.
Wow! Ten long years. The efforts of Greg’s family are truly humbling. Their commitment to teamwork and respect is awe inspiring . The realization that not much has changed is deeply upsetting. How do we take definitive steps toward ‘whole person care’? Establishing safety as goal one and understanding what that means from those very ‘whole people’ (and not just as defined by others) might be one place to start. Embracing ‘whole people’ as essential members of a care team another?
Wow! Ten long years. The efforts of Greg’s family are truly humbling. Their commitment to teamwork and respect is awe inspiring . The realization that not much has changed is deeply upsetting. How do we take definitive steps toward ‘whole person care’? Establishing safety as goal one and understanding what that means from those very ‘whole people’ (and not just as defined by others) might be one place to start. Embracing ‘whole people’ as essential members of a care team another?
Hello – I just watched Greg’s Wings on May 12 and I am so sorry that your family and Greg had to deal with what you did. I am a Registered Nurse and have been for 43 years – recently retired from my part time position, but I am still involved in local healthcare delivery. Though I know the healthcare system , very well, both here in Canada and in the United States, I have always been amazed at how individuals manage to navigate it for best outcome. What you are doing, goes a long way to bring awareness to the practitioners of our system, ownership and responsibility to our clients. I do believe in our healthcare system, but it has a lot of room for improvement. I would be willing to become involved as needed.
When I first read Greg’s Story, I was overcome with the similarities of what happened to my husband in his health issue that lead to his relatively quick passing just over 4 years ago. Having spent so much time in hospital, it was glaringly evident that there are many “holes” in the health care system. In a short one or 2 day hospital stay, one is not aware of most problems. However a week, or longer in a hospital one will quickly see and unfortunately experience the (what we called) craziness of the system. Uncaring nurses, time and apparent money driven shortcuts, almost no dietary support, obvious higher management problems, and on it went. My sister was an RN many years ago, and she was and still is, horrified at how patient care has diminished from what it was originally taught and carried out a number of years ago. I have not minced my concern over the many issues we encountered during my husbands treatment and illness. But unless you are “in it”, most don’t understand the problems. And it seemed to us to be fighting a losing battle to get any improvement. I hope Greg’s Story will continue to keep up the gauntlet to try to make a badly needed change. Thank you for continuing this quest!
Greg’s story is a warning for all of us that nothing can be taken for granted in our healthcare system. Individuals in the system may well be doing the best job they can at the point of care, but co-ordination of that care towards a successful outcome remains the responsibility of the patient themselves, or their advocate. The fact that, according to Dave Price, nothing has really changed in the last 10 years to improve that situation is disheartening, but perhaps not surprising. Following the mantra that “What gets measured gets done” we cannot expect meaningful change until incentives for those within the health system, and the funding that fuels it, are aligned with “doing the right thing” for patients like Greg.
Are you part of the dialogue defining patient safety at health care excellence Canada? (HEC is the recently amalgamated Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Institute for Healthcare Improvement CIHI)? As they update the definition of Patient Safety it would be a perfect time to connect.
Thank you Dave for your tireless commitment to change. As we look back 10 years and stand with you as you remember Greg, we know that you are making a difference in your effort to keep others from ‘falling through the cracks.’ Those of us who are also trying to contribute to changing the outcome for so many recognize that we must all stand together. Ten years from now, my hope and my prayer is that ‘we’ have become so many more. Ten years from now I hope and I pray that the health system will be architected by a coalition of dreamers who, like you who recognized what needed to be done, stepped up, and changed the world. The world should never under estimate the power of a dreamer.
Your committment to honour Greg’s passing by focusing on improving the system is inspirational. Most people that have been wronged would point fingers, lay blame, and do their level best to destroy the system that destroyed their family. I’ll admit, Dave, that is how i felt after I read the report and saw the movie about Greg. I’ve never seen you or Teri take a destructive approach to the health system and I’ve learned from that. Your desire to work to better the health system so that others will not suffer the same fate as Greg is truly filled with love and honour of the man that [I’ve heard] Greg was. Amazing and thank you.
Wow! Ten long years. The efforts of Greg’s family are truly humbling. Their commitment to teamwork and respect is awe inspiring . The realization that not much has changed is deeply upsetting. How do we take definitive steps toward ‘whole person care’? Establishing safety as goal one and understanding what that means from those very ‘whole people’ (and not just as defined by others) might be one place to start. Embracing ‘whole people’ as essential members of a care team another?
Wow! Ten long years. The efforts of Greg’s family are truly humbling. Their commitment to teamwork and respect is awe inspiring . The realization that not much has changed is deeply upsetting. How do we take definitive steps toward ‘whole person care’? Establishing safety as goal one and understanding what that means from those very ‘whole people’ (and not just as defined by others) might be one place to start. Embracing ‘whole people’ as essential members of a care team another?
Hello – I just watched Greg’s Wings on May 12 and I am so sorry that your family and Greg had to deal with what you did. I am a Registered Nurse and have been for 43 years – recently retired from my part time position, but I am still involved in local healthcare delivery. Though I know the healthcare system , very well, both here in Canada and in the United States, I have always been amazed at how individuals manage to navigate it for best outcome. What you are doing, goes a long way to bring awareness to the practitioners of our system, ownership and responsibility to our clients. I do believe in our healthcare system, but it has a lot of room for improvement. I would be willing to become involved as needed.
When I first read Greg’s Story, I was overcome with the similarities of what happened to my husband in his health issue that lead to his relatively quick passing just over 4 years ago. Having spent so much time in hospital, it was glaringly evident that there are many “holes” in the health care system. In a short one or 2 day hospital stay, one is not aware of most problems. However a week, or longer in a hospital one will quickly see and unfortunately experience the (what we called) craziness of the system. Uncaring nurses, time and apparent money driven shortcuts, almost no dietary support, obvious higher management problems, and on it went. My sister was an RN many years ago, and she was and still is, horrified at how patient care has diminished from what it was originally taught and carried out a number of years ago. I have not minced my concern over the many issues we encountered during my husbands treatment and illness. But unless you are “in it”, most don’t understand the problems. And it seemed to us to be fighting a losing battle to get any improvement. I hope Greg’s Story will continue to keep up the gauntlet to try to make a badly needed change. Thank you for continuing this quest!
Greg’s story is a warning for all of us that nothing can be taken for granted in our healthcare system. Individuals in the system may well be doing the best job they can at the point of care, but co-ordination of that care towards a successful outcome remains the responsibility of the patient themselves, or their advocate. The fact that, according to Dave Price, nothing has really changed in the last 10 years to improve that situation is disheartening, but perhaps not surprising. Following the mantra that “What gets measured gets done” we cannot expect meaningful change until incentives for those within the health system, and the funding that fuels it, are aligned with “doing the right thing” for patients like Greg.
Are you part of the dialogue defining patient safety at health care excellence Canada? (HEC is the recently amalgamated Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Institute for Healthcare Improvement CIHI)? As they update the definition of Patient Safety it would be a perfect time to connect.
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