This is the complete archive of newsletters by Richard Vazquez MD FACS. Each issue explores patient safety, surgical risk, and the culture of safety, alongside insights connected to my medical-legal thriller writing. You can read each newsletter here in PDF format or view it directly on LinkedIn.
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Explores how cultural hierarchies in surgical teams increase the risk of communication failures — and contribute to never events.
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USI provides ROI calculators to calculate 1-5 yr expected expense for never events minus the cost of the SafeStart subscription to eliminate never events.
Why safety –not financial gain–must drive healthcare decisions
Putting Patients Before Profits
Created: September 17, 2024 — Republished October 8, 2025
This issue of Risk, Safety, Quality News and Reviews– SafeStart Medical callsfor a recommitment to the physicians moral duty to place the well being of patients before profit. It examines how private equity and other financial pressures can erode the Culture of Safety that defines trustworthy healthcare.
SafeStart applauds the outstanding work of nurses at Houston Methodist Hospital
How Houston Methodist nurses are advancing communication and safety culture—SafeStart Medical applauds their leadership
When compliance prevails over communication, consent loses its value. This new issue of Healthcare Risk, Quality & Safety News & Reviews examines how informed consent drifted from conversation to compliance — and how video-informed consent and SafeStart’s workflow can help restore mutual understanding.
