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Spring 2009

Medical Malpractice

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The human cost of medical errors is high. Based on the findings of one major study, medical errors kill some 44, 000 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Another study puts the number much higher, at 98,000. Even using the lower estimate, more people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. Moreover, while errors may be more easily detected in hospitals, they afflict every health care setting: doctors' offices, day-surgery and outpatient cllinics, retail pharmacies, nursing homes, as well as home care. Deaths from medication errors take place both in and out of hospitals--more than 7,000 annually--exceed those from workplace injuries. This course explores the dysfunctional systems that spawn and perpetuate fatal and nonfatal errors and the sociocultural forces that shape the legal response.CR/NC only (no grade option).

Prerequisite(s):None. Open to the public. 14 hours CE credit: MCLE