Remaking American Medicine will tell stories of change. The goal is to inspire and empower viewers, both members of the general public and health care professionals, to join in efforts to transform American health care.

Drawing on unprecedented access to health care institutions across the nation, the series will present detailed and emotionally engaging profiles of individuals struggling to fix our broken health care system. The stories will be told through the eyes of doctors, nurses, administrators and patients, showing their struggles, their setbacks and their victories.

Read an interview with series host John Hockenberry.

Program One "Silent Killer"
In the chaos of American hospitals, a silent killer lurks hidden from view: medical errors. Rarely are these errors exposed and discussed openly so that everyone can learn. In Silent Killer, Sorrel and Tony King of Baltimore, Maryland come face-to-face with the dangers of hospital care when their youngest daughter, 18-month-old Josie, is killed by a medical error at America's top-ranked hospital, Johns Hopkins. The program chronicles how the Kings, Johns Hopkins and leaders such as Dr. Donald Berwick are determined to eliminate the preventable mistakes occurring at an alarming rate in hospitals around the country.

Read more of Sorrel King's story.

Program Two "First Do No Harm"
People do not enter a hospital thinking the experience may make them sicker or cost them their lives. But that is exactly what is happening everyday around the country. In First Do No Harm, viewers will see how health care providers are determined to overcome two major health care challenges - hospital-acquired infections and the devastating impact of medication errors, both of which exact a terrible toll on patients.

Learn how one physician is helping reduce hospital infections.

Program Three "The Stealth Epidemic"
Chronic diseases like diabetes and congestive heart failure affect nearly 100 million Americans, and treatment of these illnesses consumes nearly 70 percent of all health care resources. Yet doctors are often unable to prevent needless suffering or even death, and these failures are threatening the viability of our entire health care system. The Stealth Epidemic, examines the chronic disease crisis by exploring groundbreaking efforts to fundamentally transform the physician-patient relationship. The program looks at the impact of chronic disease on health care systems in Los Angeles and rural Whatcom County in the state of Washington.

Meet a doctor who is changing the way hospitals treat diabetes.

Program Four "Hand in Hand"
When patients enter a hospital they trust that the care they will be provided will be safe and effective. They hope for and expect the best possible outcome. In the last program of this PBS series, viewers are introduced to the unique partnerships between families and patients at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Health System in Augusta, Georgia. Hand in Hand features one of the nation's most innovative approaches to patient-centered care

See how one hospital is striving to be more family centered.

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