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 ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

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 ...

Rebecca Love is the Chief Clinical Officer at IntelyCare, the first nurse featured on Ted.com and a leader in nurse workforce innovation. The way I see it, being human has become, in many respects, a ...

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 ...

Nearly a quarter of hospital stays involve adverse events from healthcare errors, and nearly one in 10 cause serious harm, according to a study replicating the landmark 1991 Harvard Medical Practice ...