POSTS TAGGED AS medical malpractice

A Quarter Century of Diagnostic Errors

Between 1986 and 2010, malpractice payouts for patients who were killed, or disabled by diagnostic errors (not including surgical [MORE]

Disturbing Frequency of Surgical “Never Events”

“Never events,” like leaving a sponge in a patient’s body, or wrong site-wrong procedure-wrong patient, are never supposed to [MORE]