A Nurse's Story of Surviving Preventable Medical Errors

Health care harm may contribute to nearly as many deaths each year as cancer or heart disease. Adverse drug reactions, mis diagnoses, hospital associated infections and treatment mistakes all take a tremendous toll. How would you even know a mistake had occurred? The c d c keeps no statistics on atrogenic deaths. Billions are spent to study diseases, but there is no national institute for the prevention of medical errors. And very little funding is available to study this pro that's why to day we're talking with donna helen crisp, author of anatomy of medical errors,. A nurse's story of surviving preventable medical errors and discovering the truth.