President, RFK Human Rights
William “Bill” Smith
Founder & Executive Director
SafetyBuddy, Inc.
SafetyBuddy News: On June 4, 2026, at the Kennedy Human Rights Award Ceremony — Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC — Kerry Kennedy and Bill Smith met for the first time. Kerry has devoted more than 40 years to fighting institutional impunity: ensuring those who cause harm are held accountable, and those without voice are heard. Bill lost his son Zander to a system that had no requirement to tell the truth. He built SafetyBuddy so no patient ever faces that silence alone. They recognized the same mission. A conversation has begun.
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Let Your Voice Be Heard
Urgent, real-time, life saving — we all know these. In a hospital — the highest stakes, fastest clock — there is no button.
Just a wall of silence. You sense danger, but the system hands you nothing.
Meet SafetyBuddy.
The harm that's happening now is published now.
Your voice is in the loop. Now.
Your Voice is Heard, and all is fair.
When my son Zander was 17, a post-surgical complication was visible — and dismissed. The attending physician's position was "do nothing and watch." I was an aerospace engineer in the room. In my world, when something is wrong after a procedure, you do not wait. You escalate. You document. You act.
There was no lever to pull. No channel for my voice. No way to say: what is happening right now, in this hallway, at this moment, is not acceptable — and I want someone to know it.
SafetyBuddy's Patients Say feature exists for that moment. The left bubble is your voice — published the second you submit it. The right bubble is the provider — notified within seconds. You don't have to wait. One voice. Real time. On record.
My goal, on Zander's behalf, is to be effective in reducing the many thousands of people who are harmed or die due to preventable medical errors. I know the devastation of such a loss and Zander would want me to do exactly this so that nobody suffers this way again.
— Bill Smith, Founder
Thumbs up, harm down
One man, one tiny [in]action — saved the world.
Stanislav Petrov (1983)
Any single patient could be the next Petrov.
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