A Series of Hospital Nightmares
13 min readFeb 22, 2016
It might surprise you to learn that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in United States, according to a study by Johns Hopkins. Healthcare professionals are generally professional, dedicated, and caring people, but humans make mistakes. Making their job harder is the for-profit system of healthcare in the United States, in which the goal of ever-higher profits is often at odds with providing quality care. Under…