Hospital Never Events
Are you putting your life at risk when you go the hospital? It’s a question Marty Makary hears a lot. He’s a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and author of the New York Times best selling book “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care.” He and his research team examined what he calls “hospital never events”. He explains to WBHM’s Tanya Ott.
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