My name is Philip Glickstein. I am a retired critical care and transplant professional whose life was permanently altered by the loss of my mother following medical negligence incident in May of 2020. What began as a personal search for answers into her death evolved into a six-year examination of how civil justice systems, regulatory agencies, and legislative structures respond — or fail to respond — when harm occurs.

With a professional background spanning two decades in critical care medicine, human organ & tissue recovery for transplantation, surgical technology, nephrology, dialysis, hemapheresis, and blood banking, I worked within highly regulated medical systems where precision, documentation, and accountability were non-negotiable. That experience shaped my understanding of how institutions are designed to function — and how subtle policy decisions can disrupt those safeguards.

After my mother’s preventable death, I immersed myself in the legal and regulatory frameworks governing medical malpractice, administrative oversight, and civil remedy. What I discovered was not simply a single flawed statute, specifically Florida Statute §768.21 (8), but a broader structural problem: when injury and law fall out of alignment, public trust erodes and systems drift away from their intended purpose.

The Accountability Gap represents the evolution of that inquiry. It is not a platform for outrage, but for examination. Not a call to shout, but an invitation to engage. Its mission is to restore alignment between harm and accountability through research, principled debate, and civic participation.

My work continues — guided by the belief that citizens must be involved in repairing the institutions that govern them.