Brian Boyle: The Patient Experience

Brian Boyle is a national healthcare and patient advocate, published author and public speaker. In this video, we see Brian give a keynote presentation at a Patient Safety Summit where he shared his experience of being a former intensive care patient with various healthcare providers, patient safety directors, and frontline staff. His message focuses on showing his appreciation to healthcare providers, offering insight regarding patient safety, quality of care, and the perspective of the patient.

It was a horrific car crash. On the way home from swim practice in 2004, eighteen-year old Brian Boyle’s future changed in an instant when a dump truck plowed into his vehicle. He was airlifted to a shock-trauma hospital. He had lost sixty percent of his blood, his heart had moved across his chest, and his organs and pelvis were pulverized. He was placed in a medically-induced coma.