Personal Injury Law

Deadly Medication Errors

By Ken Margolin

The problem of medication errors has by now been well-reviewed, and efforts to minimize such errors are underway in hospitals and doctors' offices across the country. Nevertheless, the problem of medication errors has proven to be a very stubborn one. In his groundbreaking book, "To Err is Human," Lucien Leape, M.D., estimated that medication errors caused approximately 98,000 deaths per year. Given that the 40,000 +/- highway deaths each year, is often described as "carnage" on the roads, 98,000 is a sobering number.

Full post as published by Boston Personal Injury Lawyer on September 14, 2007 (boomark / email).