A former Tennessee nurse has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the accidental death of a patient because of a medication error. She was also found ...

A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a careful recovery. Instead, a lawsuit alleges that a single misplaced decimal ...

DENVER — A longtime Colorado anesthesiologist now faces manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges following the 2023 death of a patient during a routine eye surgery. A grand jury in ...

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Ronald Johnson (left) and Tyler Cole, holding his son (right). An investigation from the Office of the Inspector General released on Monday found that “significant medical errors” were made when ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death, yet healthcare systems continue to struggle to reduce them. A new perspective article argues that fear of legal consequences, institutional ...

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 ...