When researchers proposed the shocking statistic that medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the United States, the healthcare community reacted in a variety of ways. Instead of ...

I came across an interesting article in The New York Times‘ editorial section today, written by Sanjay Gupta, the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, and CNN‘s chief medical ...

Every day, as a doctor in private practice, I listen to stories of patients' medical mishaps. I tend to weed out stories of botched procedures, ignored symptoms, and deep betrayals from medical ...

In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...