What a medical malpractice verdict reveals about safety
Every hospital in America has a critical-results policy. When a scan reveals something dangerous, the finding gets escalated urgently, personally, in a way that cannot fall through the cracks. Hospitals write these rules because they know a missed handoff kills as surely as a missed diagnosis.
In June, a jury in Aroostook County, Maine’s northernmost, most rural county, returned $23.1 million in what plaintiff’s counsel reports is the largest non-death medical …
What a medical malpractice verdict reveals about safety
