Us doctors downplay medical errors - A new survey shows that US physicians do not believe that the problem of medical errors is as significant as the 1999 report by the Institute of Medic...

Medical errors - Tracking down the exact prevalence of medical errors is a difficult task as many incidents go unreported. However, what estimates are available descri...

Doctors are also victims of medical errors - In a recent US survey, over 40 per cent of people said they or their families had been the victim of medical errors - as did 35 per cent of doctors

Medical errors: now here's an idea. . . - A phrase that includes something about stable doors and bolting horses comes to mind as we read that the UK is launching the world s first system to c...

Medical Mistakes and mishaps - The attached article is self-explanatory. It reminds me of a number of recent operations "botched" in the US: wrong leg removed, wrong lung removed, w...

Hrt: need for better trials - The benefits of hormone replacement therapy could be cancelled out by their risks, according to an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. ....

Medical fascism - Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine devoted a good portion of an issue to chiropractic. The first study, which purported to examine whether...

Iuds:hidden infections - While the Lancet was trumpeting the safety of long term placement of interuterine devices, the New England Journal of Medicine warned they could cause...