“Never Events” and Medical Malpractice: What You Need to Know
“NEVER EVENTS” AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE:
When it comes to healthcare, “never events” are medical mistakes that are so terriblethey never should have occurred in the first place. According to one study performed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, approximately 4,000 such “never events’occur in the United States every year—a rather alarming statistic.
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TYPES OF “NEVER EVENTS” IN THE MEDICAL CONTEXT
Some of the most common “never events” that occur in the medical context include the following:
Surgical errors: where a surgery is performed on the wrong body part or on the
