MEDICAL ERRORS AND MISDIAGNOSIS

MEDICAL ERRORS AND MISDIAGNOSIS:  the medical field is one of the most sensitive fields that require extreme carefulness in everything done.  This is because it deals with the human life and any error, can lead to automatic termination of the life of either the health work and or the patient.  The errors that are more likely to happen in the medical field are usually counteracted by making thorough and frequent checkups by more than one medical personnel to make sure that in case a mistake is done by one individual, it can be corrected by the other before it reaches the target patient.  However, since the human brain is not an automatic machine, several aspects of errors tend to arise especially in resource limited setting as we are going to look at them one by one, and the way they are watched over the time not to happen frequently or again.

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