Fort Worth Wants to be the Epicenter For Eliminating Medical Error

About five years ago, Dr. Michael Hicks tells me, the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth invited a man named Christopher Hart to speak during an industry symposium regarding patient safety and medical errors. Hart had nothing to do with healthcare. Not with how it’s delivered, paid for, or scrutinized—none of that. In fact, Hart monitors the safety of the transportation industry. He’s now the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, the independent federal agency that digs into the details behind every single civil aviation accident in the U.S.