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Supporting healthcare workers after medical errors improves patient safety
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The World Day for Safety and Health at Work, led by the International Labour Organization, is marked each year on 28 April. The day raises global …
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Rhyothemis Jan 14

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A doctor gave me an inept diagnosis for a neurological problem. I should know: I’m a neurologist.
[2020]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/hospital-misdiagnosis-mistakes-ignored/2020/10/02/7bac2d10-f851-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html

Unfortunately, it is paywalled, but I was able to access it though my local public library back when I was in the US.

#MedicalErrors

A doctor gave me an inept diagnosis for a neurological problem. I should know: I’m a neurologist.

I offered to teach the staff at this medical center, but I got nowhere. I could not have been the first patient so poorly evaluated. Without doubt, I won’t be the last.

The Washington Post

magneton2150 at KillBait Sep 5, 2025

Thousands of Diabetes Patients Affected by Faulty Test Results, Need Retesting

A faulty blood test machine used in hospitals across England has caused incorrect diagnoses for over 55,000 diabetes patients. The errors, traced back to machines produced by Trinity Biotech, led to patients being wrongly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or misprescribed medication like Metformin. A B... [More info]

Hacker News Aug 27, 2025

The Therac-25 Incident

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-therac-25-incident

#HackerNews #Therac25 #Incident #SafetyTech #MedicalErrors #HistoryOfTech

The Therac-25 Incident

A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard about the Therac-25 incident. I was surprised, and went off to do an informal survey of developers I know, only to discover that only about half of them knew what it was without searching for it. I think it's important that everyone in our industry know about this incident, and upon digging into the details I was stunned by how much of a WTF there was. Today's article is not fun, or funny. It describes incidents of death and maiming caused by faulty software engineering processes. If that's not what you want today, grab a random article from our archive, instead. When you're strapping a patient to an electron gun capable of delivering a 25MeV particle beam, following procedure is vitally important. The technician operating the Therac-25 radiotherapy machine at the East Texas Cancer Center (ETCC) had been running this machine, and those like it, long enough that she had the routine down.

The Daily WTF

Hacker News Apr 19, 2025

Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/hospitals-surgical-objects-patients/

#HackerNews #surgery #medicalerrors #patientcare #healthcare #sponges

Charlie McHenry Apr 18, 2025

An M.D. cited by the California state medical board for gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, unprofessional conduct involving dishonesty or corruption, making or signing false documents, creating false medical records, and failure to maintain accurate medical records, gets five year probation after patient death. Doc killed a dude and they didn’t even revoke his license. How is that possible? #Medicine #Malpractice #MedicalErrors #hospitals #oversight #California

Source: KGET 17 News https://search.app/6kdxUvQzkuhTb5KV6

Broadwaybabyto Apr 15, 2025

Medical errors kill, maim and traumatize. As a disability advocate, I hear stories of medical negligence almost every day. I’ve got more than a handful of my own stories.

Few are as egregious a this one.

A young woman seeks help for abdominal pain. At first she’s dismissed as having PCOS.

They later find a 25cm (!!!) cyst on her ovary and proceed to do a total hysterectomy and resect part of her bowel and appendix.

She barely survives, and when she regains consciousness in the ICU is told she’s lost her womb and has stage four cancer.

That alone would be difficult to deal with, but then she’s later told she doesn’t have cancer and the hysterectomy and surgical menopause were unnecessary.

She tries to focus on the positive (not dying of cancer), only to have the medical team change course again and confirm that she actually DOES have stage four cancer but in her appendix and lymph nodes and not her uterus or ovary. Pp

The gauntlet of emotions this woman must be dealing with is heartbreaking.

How a medical team can get something this wrong this many times on ONE patient I will never understand.

As always, try and have an advocate with you at all times. I’m unsure if it would have helped in this scenario, but we all need a second set of eyes and ears in the room.

Ask questions. Get a second opinion. Don’t be afraid to speak up if you feel you’re being mistreated. Reach out online for support from other patients and caregivers… we will help you.

https://people.com/woman-32-has-hysterectomy-doctors-apologize-no-cancer-11714951

#medicalerrors #iatrogenic #disability #trauma #hysterectomy #cancer #womenshealth #obgyn #chronicillness