The Culture of Silence Around Medical Errors Nurses might be afraid to speak up regarding medical errors. New graduate nurses typically receive 3–6 months of orientation in hospital units. When they ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. That would have been obvious if the ...