Hacker News with Generative AI: Medical Malpractice

A Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics (propublica.org)
On a Thursday morning this past April, 61-year-old Darryl Young was lying unconscious in the eighth-floor intensive care unit of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Healthcare, Ethics, Hospitals, Medical Malpractice, Statistics

9 points by impish9208 53 days ago | 0 comments

NHS trust admits contaminated feed caused baby's death after decade of denial (theguardian.com)
An NHS trust has admitted that a highly vulnerable baby died because of contaminated feed that it gave her, after denying that for more than a decade.

Healthcare, Medical Malpractice, Public Health, Negligence

8 points by isomorph 74 days ago | 0 comments