True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

Medical error can be understood as an unintended act either of commission or omission, within the context of healthcare. Errors can occur at either the individual- or ...

This summer, surgeons at University Hospitals in Cleveland transplanted a donor kidney into the wrong patient, while the patient the kidney had been destined for had to go back on the waiting list for ...

As we saw in last week’s essay, preventable errors are unnecessary, avoidable threats to obtaining beneficial therapy. Correcting them is prohibitive in terms of financial, emotional and physical ...