Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Cause of Death: Medical Error? While medical error is not a new topic, it is still a difficult one to address, in large part owing to the lack of both a succinct ...

Recent headlines telling us that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death deliver as much “news” as headlines telling us that Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States.

A new research study recently published in The BMJ, one of the most influential general medicine journals in the world, claims that medical error is the third leading ...

In early May, a report was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) declaring that medical errors are the third leading cause of death among Americans. Specifically, a retrospective analysis of ...

Richard Gunderman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This story originally appeared on the Conversation and is reproduced here with permission. A report published in May from researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine claims that medical errors ...