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Sentinel Events - When Doctors Make Mistakes

In the medical world, certain events that happen in the care of a patient are called sentinel events. These are unexpected events that cause serious physical or psychological injury or harm to a patient. These are usually procedure-based events such as operating on the wrong extremity or inadvertently puncturing an organ when doing a procedure. One would imagine that the delineation between what is and what is not a sentinel event is pretty straightforward. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Read more →