Josie's Story: The Josie King Story

Reading Josie's Story, I cried at Sorrel King's unflinching descriptions of grief and the anguish that comes with losing a child. But when she takes the medical error that killed her daughter Josie and turns her tragedy into a crusade to help avoid such errors from taking someone else's child, I cheered. For the Kings, for Josie, for all of us. Everyone should read this book, not just for what it shows us about the human spirit, but because we all need to hear Josie's story and be better people for having heard it."
-Ann Hood
Author of The Knitting Circle

"A wonderful book, written with deep insight into the uncertain world of medicine. The tale of this family grips the heart and illuminates the mind."
-Dr. Jerome Groopman
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; contributor to The New Yorker; and author of How Doctors Think

"Sorrel King took the tragic death of her daughter and used it to transform the culture of the nation's top hospital- and ultimately the entire world of medicine."
-Dr. Robert Wachter
Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

Josie King died on January of 2001 in Johns Hopkins Hospital, she was 18 months old. She was admitted to the hospital after suffering burns from climbing into a hot bath. Weeks later after healing from the burns two days before returning to her home she died of severe dehydration and cardiac arrest. This was cause by misused of narcotics and a breakdown of communication by the hospital medical staff.

Sorrel King, Josie's mother wrote this outstanding and touching book where she describes the intense grief and anger she felt by loosing her 18 month old daughter. She decided to write "Josie's Story" to help others that also have been in her situation and to make the medical professionals more aware of these errors that cause many lives.

The Josie King Foundation mission is to prevent others from dying or being harmed by medical errors. By uniting healthcare providers and consumers, and funding innovative safety programs, we hope to create a culture of patient safety, together.

Sorrel King has been an advocate for patient's, lecturing medical professionals about the devastating effects of slipshod care.