Ascension drug mix-up renews focus on medical error criminalization

A medication mix-up that paralyzed a 72-year-old Nashville, Tenn., patient has pulled national pharmacy and anesthesiology groups into renewed scrutiny of whether clinicians should be criminally charged for errors. On Aug. 14, four joint replacement patients at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, Tenn., received potassium phosphate instead of the intended anesthetic mepivacaine, the […] The post Ascension drug mix-up renews focus on medical error criminalization appeared fi...