Remaking American Medicine (2006)
Examining the quality crisis in our health-care system and exploring innovative solutions, this four-part PBS documentary provides a comprehensive look at the state of medicine in America today. Topics include patient safety, medical and medication mistakes, hospital-acquired infections, family-centered care and effective management of chronic disease. Moving personal stories highlight the problems and the people who are working to solve them.
Seasons & Episode
SILENT KILLER profiles individuals who are committed to fixing a health care system that is estimated to kill up to 98,000 people a year.
FIRST DO NO HARM focuses on efforts to eliminate hospital-acquired infections and medication errors.
THE STEALTH EPIDEMIC looks at groundbreaking efforts to create effective chronic disease management programs.
HAND IN HAND shows how a unique partnership between patients, families and providers is transforming a teaching hospital.
