Month: May 2016

Doctors from Johns Hopkins Medicine, one of the most prestigious medical centers in the world, are trying to lower the number of deaths caused by medical error.Those errors include mistakes in execution, such as when surgeons leave tools in patients, and improper...

If medical error were considered a disease, a new study has found, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease and cancer. Medical error is not reported as a cause of death on death certificates, and the Centers for...