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 real ...

More than two dozen hospitals across Oregon were recently graded based on how safe they were in fall 2025. Here's what to ...

Earlier this year in March, a nurse from Vanderbilt University — RaDonda Vaught — was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of a patient. In 2017, Vaught gave 75-year-old ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

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Peter Schwartz, MD, was chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1990s when a young physician sought him out. The doctor, whom Schwartz ...

But the 33-year-old school district controller actually wound up with two scars in the delicate region — one on each side — after the surgeon mistakenly operated on the left and had to start over.

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 ...