Medical errors in U.S. hospitals kill tens of thousands of patients each year, and even more suffer injury because of mistakes by doctors or nurses. Not every case of harm is avoidable — patients may get an infection even if doctors do everything they should. But when hospitals are at fault, most of the time they never tell you.
Afraid of getting sued, they deny wrongdoing, hide information from patients or families, and exclude them from internal investigations. Hospital staff review the events in private conferences. Sometimes they send reports to third-party safety groups, but those, too, are privileged. This means attorneys for the injured or the families of patients who died can't get them.
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