Maryland becomes America’s healthcare blunder capital: Serious hospital errors have tripled since 2019 – including three patients who died when an engineer accidentally unplugged oxygen machine
Dangerous medical blunders resulting in death or serious injury more than tripled in Maryland hospitals between 2019 and 2022. A report from the state shows there were 832 adverse events from October 1 2021 to September 30 2022, which was also the highest since records began in 2004. Of last year’s incidents, 769 were classified as the …