Between 80,000 and 160,000 patients suffer preventable injury or death because of a medical misdiagnoses each year in the United States. That was the conclusion of an extensive study by researchers from Johns Hopkins Medical Center which found that mistakes made in diagnoses – including missed, wrong or delayed diagnoses – happened more often and with

A review recently found that the Wisconsin Medical Board failed to severely discipline doctors who committed egregious errors, many in which patients suffered serious injuries or even death. The report by the State Journal reviewed 218 cases that led to board discipline from 2010 to 2012 and found that in more than half the cases doctors received

The toddler was checked into a Chicago hospital in December 2011 for relatively routine surgery to repair an undescended testicle. But the child suffered cardiac arrest after the operation and it took five minutes for medical personnel to respond. It was too long and too late. The child suffered brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.

More and more these days medical procedures are being outsourced by hospitals, sometimes to countries halfway around the world. On March 18, 2008, Sharron Juno was discharged from an Alabama hospital with her discharge summary – unknown to her treating physician — outsourced by the hospital and ultimately transcribed in India. The transcript and various

A new study reports that each year in the United States doctors commit more than 4,000 “never events” — the kind of medical mistake that should never happen. These errors include operating on the wrong part of the body or performing the wrong procedure or even performing surgery on the wrong patient altogether. Another common