Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Cause of Death: Medical Error? While medical error is not a new topic, it is still a difficult one to address, in large part owing to the lack of both a succinct ...

Peter Schwartz, MD, was chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1990s when a young physician sought him out. The doctor, whom Schwartz ...

Medical negligence kills more than 250,000 people, and harms about 10 times that number, every year. And errors don’t just happen in hospitals: A 2007 study of pediatric malpractice showed that 43 ...

Preventable medical errors reported by full-service hospitals in Massachusetts grew 60 percent last year, a rise partly attributed to problems detected in a single hospital’s dialysis unit. Hospitals ...

In early May, a report was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) declaring that medical errors are the third leading cause of death among Americans. Specifically, a retrospective analysis of ...

Richard Gunderman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Could a misspelled word cause a medical crisis? Maybe, if your medical records are being analyzed by an artificial intelligence system. One little typo, or even the use of an unusual word, can cause a ...

Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University In late November 1999, a TV producer called me about an alarming report that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans ...