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John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...
Earlier this year in March, a nurse from Vanderbilt University — RaDonda Vaught — was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of a patient. In 2017, Vaught gave 75-year-old ...
Best Practice Medicine (BPM) has officially opened its newest medical education campus in Reno Better resources and ...
Kaweah Health in Visalia was also fined for lapse in monitoring a patient with heart issue, according to a state report.
Medical negligence in Nigeria came to the fore when author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accused a Lagos hospital of negligence ...
Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...
Pediatric trauma patients with chronic conditions experience more medical errors than pediatric trauma patients without chronic conditions, according to a study published in SAGE Open Medicine.