Fetal heart rate tracings indicated earlier intervention after prolonged induction of labor. The obstetrician and nurse midwife were faulted for not working more closely together.

Fetal heart rate tracings indicated earlier intervention after prolonged induction of labor. The obstetrician and nurse midwife were faulted for not working more closely together.

Medication error in the ER was preventable. Culture and communication problems compounded an error that required several surgeries and amputation.

Dr. Gordon Schiff discusses how to prevent a patient's heart attack, this practice would have needed better systems to monitor and identify chronic risk factors.

Hospital Flaw and Human Error

Nation's “first malpractice crisis” resulted in 1821, after a horse fell on a man and the surgeon waited a month to visit his patient to see if his attempted hip reduction worked.

Lack of collaboration and poor documentation among the factors in large settlement with severely compromised infant.

The surgeon orchestrated a great recovery from a massive bleed that resulted in blindness, but the patient sued for answers.

The patient was under 50 and lack of communication between the PCP and GI about a sigmoidoscopy order contributed to a diagnostic failure.

The patient was under 50 and lack of communication between the PCP and GI about a sigmoidoscopy order contributed to a diagnostic failure.