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All of those happen regularly. Many nurses quit after a serious allegation and the hospital never reports it to the state board for PR and liability reasons. Th

All of those happen regularly. Many nurses quit after a serious allegation and the hospital never reports it to the state board for PR and liability reasons. Then they move to a new hospital/assisted living facility/etc and do the same thing again. Just as well, I know multiple cases in my area where a hospital has tried to fire or destroy a nurse’s career over speaking out against a practice or staff member. I think you would be very surprised how much misconduct happens in the medical field without accountability (although, there is still more accountability than against police).

V__ 5y ago
That is quite shocking to hear honestly. Thanks for the insight.
perl4ever 5y ago
Sometimes I get downvoted for mentioning this on HN - but somewhere I read the facile seeming comment that the reason we underestimate the impact of medical errors is because there is no billing or procedure code for "oops, killed the patient". I briefly worked for a health insurer, and got the impression that everything revolves around the standard codes. And HEDIS and NCQA and stuff.