Whack a Mole: The Price We Pay For Expecting Perfection by David Marx.

Whack a Mole is a game in which we watch the moles pop up and then we bop them in the head with a hammer... Whack a mole.

The author, David Marx is a systems engineer with a juris doctor in law who has spent his adult life "helping others reduce the risk imposed on us all by our shared human fallibility."

Here is the back cover of Mr Marx' book:

"We're going to hurt each other -- it's a fact of life, a cost of doing business. On the bright side, we can reduce the odds. We can design better systems, and we can make better choices. Along the way, we could quit suing each other, we could abandon our "no harm, no foul" approach to personal accountability, we could rewrite regulations and corporate policies that outlaw human error, and we could rethink how we respond to our children's mistakes.

Marx addresses regulators, attorneys, corporate CEOs, public policy makers, the media, and even parents to show that current social perspectives toward our inherent human fallibility have substantially hindered efforts to make the world a safer place to live. While his observations are primarily about American culture, the lessons are universal. Insightful, bold, and told through often humorous tales, Whack-a-Mole pushes readers to rethink what it means to be accountable -- at work, at home, and at play."

A must read for anyone in the Patient Safety arena... as Dr Lucian Leape testified to Congress -- the single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that "we punish people for making mistakes."