For the second time. Ms. Brennan-Taylor will lecture to third-year medical school students about her 88-year-old mother’s death, which was caused by a series of medical errors. According to the report, Ms. Brennan-Taylor’s mother was in a hospital for a leg condition in 2009. Her mother eventually contracted three hospital-acquired infections and was given “a deadly cocktail” of medications.
“Her story adds a very human dimension to our discussion about medical errors,” David Holmes, associate vice chair of medical student education at the university’s Department of Family Medicine, said in the report. “It helps the students realize that it’s not just statistics that we are talking about. It’s somebody’s mom.”
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