For an article in this Sunday's New York Post, journalist Susan Edelman is looking for malpractice or personal injury lawsuits to cite as examples of so-called "never events,'' or preventable medical errors. They include: wrong-site surgery, wrong body part, wrong procedure, wrong patient; "retained foreign object;'' death or near-death and/or severe injury from medication errors; abducted infants; etc. Along with data from the state Department of Health, she hopes to include some details from some recent cases and, if possible, comments from the patients.
Please feel free to contact Susan directly off-list if you have material responsive to this query.
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Thank you to Paul at Supraspinatus for the head's up.