Month: April 2023

Many aspects of medicine have become safer over the past decades. That is certainly true of anesthesia. Fifty or sixty years ago, patients had about a one-in-ten-thousand chance of death when doctors put them under. That number is closer to 1 in 200,000 these days....

Misdiagnosis is a serious problem in hospitals. It affects over 5% of all patients. Of course, not all diagnostic errors result in serious injuries or death — but 370,000 out of 7.4 million do. When major contributing factors to this issue are relatively easy to stop,...