Book
But It's Rare
Hardwiring Patient Safety
But It’s Rare is Dr. Kayur V. Patel’s book about how healthcare can harness AI, improve clinical workflows, and apply systems thinking to reduce preventable harm.
Drawing on his experience as a practicing emergency physician, former hospital executive, healthcare quality leader, and medicolegal expert, Dr. Patel examines why rare but catastrophic diagnoses are missed, how patient risk becomes obscured within fragmented systems, and how AI can help clinicians identity red flags sooner.
New ReleaseFrom Missed Signals to Safer Systems
The Problem
Healthcare still relies too heavily on memory, luck, and individual heroics to catch risk before harm occurs.
The Missed Signals
Rare but catastrophic diagnoses can be missed when abnormal vital signs, nursing notes, pending results, and clinical changes are not connected.
The System Gap
Patient safety failures often emerge from communication breakdowns, documentation gaps, workflow failures, and systems that do not carry the patient's story forward.
The AI Opportunity
AI should not replace clinicians. It should help systems remember, recognize risk, connect data, and bring the right information to the right person at the right time.
The Future
The next era of patient safety will be built on workflows that protect patients, support clinicians, and identify harm before it happens.
Who This Book Is For
But It's Rare is written for people who care about safer healthcare, including clinicians, healthcare executives, patient safety teams, risk managers, attorneys, legal nurse consultants, health technology leaders, medical trainees, patients, and families.
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Dr. Patel speaks on many of the themes explored in But It's Rare, including AI in healthcare, diagnostic risk, emergency medicine, systems failure, medical-legal education, and the future of safer clinical workflows.