[Mila]

Oh, what a scary set of events! I can't see how there is any way to protect yourself from something like this happening to you or a loved one. In situations like this we tend to put our complete faith in the medical professionals. The family of this young girl are probably constantly tortured by the "what ifs". If any one of the factors that you mentioned had been done differently, this person might still be alive. Tragic.

[wastoute]

My purpose wasn't to frighten. Hour after hour, day after day, "the system" works but occasionally things happen that shouldn't. It happens in any field. In a factory errors can be detected and bad products held in "QI" but in the hospital errors happen to people. If you try to decrease the amount of hours docs work you increase the number of "handoffs" which are also a big source of errors. If you decrease the workload you dilute the experience they need to learn.