Medical Mistakes

“Should information about medical errors be available to the public, or should medical errors be kept confidential by state licensing agencies?” I chose this dilemma because from experience with my health, I’ve had this happen to me where doctors couldn’t find out what was wrong with me and come to find out there was a medical mistake that was made. Thankfully I was notified of this mistake and action was taken. Although this mistake has caused me to have some lifelong health problems I am happy that they are trying to correct the mistake so I can live a normal life and be the best mother to my child. After this happened to me, it inspired me to get into the healthcare field so I can help save lives and make a difference in someone’s life and help prevent this from happening to someone else. I also chose this topic because in
Medical mistake has been going on for many years and have been cited as the fourth leading cause of death in the nation. There is now a laboratory for innovation to make the healthcare safer. There has been a reported 98,000 death nationally just in hospitals alone. This has cost up to $29 billion each year. More people died from medical mistakes than car accidents, breast cancer, and/or AIDS. Medical errors affect the health care organizational structure, culture, and social in many ways. Medication errors have severe direct and indirect effects on health care organizational structure, and culture is usually the outcome of breakdowns in a system of care. Many reasons can involve in