Medical Error Shown To Be Vastly Underreported In Terrifying New Study–And The CDC Doesn’t Even Track It “Medical error.” It’s such a cold term, such a clinical term. It hardly conveys the pain, suffering, sense of betrayal and even loss of life that can result. From botched surgeries, to misprescribed medications, to amputations of the wrong limb–there was a story in the news recently of a hospital where neurosurgeons operated on the wrong hemisphere of the brain not once, not twice, but three separate times within a one-year span–the list of horrors goes on.… Read the rest