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Delightful, bubbly, creative, and athletic, Talia Goldenberg died at age 23 because her doctors, nurses, and support staff, all failed to listen when Talia, her physician father, and her mother repeatedly told them that Talia couldn’t breathe. For 20 hours, each member of Talia’s healthcare team dismissed or ignored Talia’s symptoms and pleas for help. Had any one of them listened and acted on her behalf, Talia would be alive today.
Giving Talia a Voice
Talia’s parents, Dr. Jeff Goldenberg and Naomi Kirtner, have a powerful story to share. As founders of Talia’s Voice: Projects for Patient Safety, they are agents for change, telling Talia’s story in hospitals, medical and nursing schools, health management programs—anywhere that healthcare workers and patients intersect. They tailor their talks to the group to whom they are speaking and are comfortable with large and small audiences. If you work at, or are an administrator in, a hospital or medical educational setting, please contact us. The impact of Talia’s story will be lasting.
Become a Voice for Change
Our goal at Talia’s Voice is deceptively simple and deeply complex: we want to change the culture in medicine so that nobody’s child, sibling, partner or parent dies because the people in charge won’t listen. Help strengthen our voice in the fight to make hospitals safe for our loved ones.
Your contribution makes it possible for us to do vital work that benefits all patients—and we will all be patients at some point.
What We're Doing and Thinking
In the Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy’s world changes from black and white to technicolor, she turns to Toto and says, “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” From the moment we lost Talia, our world did the opposite, changing from technicolor to black and white. We...
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As a child, Talia had a knack for figuring out how to… figure things out. When she didn’t have the skills she needed to do something, she would at first get frustrated; but soon she would become single-minded about learning how to do the thing, keeping at it with a...
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Our larger-than-life, lion-hearted brother-in-law, Gabriel Romano, died this month. His daughter (Talia’s first cousin who is herself a new doctor) and Jeff were by his side as Gabe took his last breath. He fought hard to overcome the particularly aggressive cancer...
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