The family of Kyle Slade, a 40-year-old father of four who entered Copper Springs East for depression, has filed a lawsuit claiming his death was caused by a nurse mistakenly administering a fatal ...

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 ...

Inmate Miguel Gonzalez Rosales died at Mecklenburg County Jail due to a methadone overdose meant for another prisoner.

While nurses deserve patients’ gratitude and the highest praise for the valiant care they have provided during the coronavirus pandemic, a Nashville case has raised tough questions as to whether and ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...

Internal medicine residents who report higher levels of fatigue and emotional distress also report higher levels of major medical errors, according to a recent study reported in the Journal of the ...

Healthcare quality and patient safety have recently entered the public discourse and garnered increasing attention from leaders in medicine. Most don't realize that medical errors claim thousands of ...

The case has rocked the medical profession. On March 25, 2022, a Tennessee jury found a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and negligent abuse of ...

Mark Keough explains why if medical errors become criminal, the fire service could be put in a very precarious position. A nurse at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center made a fatal ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication errors rose 300% since 2000, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics this week ...