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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: When healthcare goes wrong: What you can do when medical staff make mistakes
Description: Doctors failing to catch blood clots. Cancer being missed. Medicine given to patients who are allergic to it. Surgical equipment left inside patients. We trust our lives to medical professionals to find out what’s wrong with us and help us get better, but sometimes the mistakes of medical staff can lead to dire consequences. Thankfully, processes are in place to hold doctors, nurses and other staff accountable when things go wrong, and hopefully prevent mistakes from happening again. We’re aware of many of these stories thanks to the Open Justice project whic...