Reetam Ganguli once pitched his technology, to rescue women from pregnancy complications, in an airplane bathroom. He often works all night, when other recent college graduates are partying. And he sometimes goes weeks without seeing his girlfriend — or any friend at all.
But in the midst of his sacrifices, things are looking up.
Ganguli’s story as a startup founder is the centerpiece of a new documentary from the makers of “To Err is Human,” a 2018 film about patient safety that followed a 1999 landmark report of the same title by the National Institute of Medicine. The sequel, titled “The Pitch,” spotlights how a new generation of technology stands to improve patient safety in the United States — that is, if young entrepreneurs like Ganguli can get an audience with the physicians, insurers, and executives who are the health care system’s gatekeepers.
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