History Medical Blunders

10 of the Most Shocking Medical Blunders of all Time

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Though the true extent of the damage could never be quantified as testing of HIV was still not developed, the profiteering has marked its presence in the notorious history of medical blunders. (1, 2, 3) 3 In 2003, 17-year-old Jessica Santillan died after receiving a heart …

10 Medical Errors That Changed the Standard of Care

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In the past 20 years, courts have held physicians and hospitals to national standards of care rather than accepting local variations in the practice of medicine. In 1976, Dr. Jim Styner, an...

20 years of patient safety | AAMC

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In 1999, in its pioneering report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) revealed that as many as 98,000 patients died …

10 Biggest Medical Scandals in History

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Thalidomide Birth Defects Scandal – Germany and Worldwide (1950s–1960s) …

20 of the Greatest Blunders in Science in the Last 20 Years

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7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

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In 1884, an Austrian ophthalmologist, Carl Koller, discovered that a few drops of cocaine solution put on a patient’s cornea acted as a topical anesthetic. It made the eye immobile and...

10 Terrible Ideas In Medicine From The Past 100 Years

https://listverse.com/2017/11/22/10-terrible-ideas-in-medicine-from-the-past-100-years/

Throughout the 1970s, MDMA (aka “Ecstasy”) had a decent following of psychiatrists who suggested its use for psychological therapy in patients with depression, autism, PMS, …

A brief history of medical malpractice – Physicians News

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In 1794, the United States saw its first medical malpractice case. The plaintiff claimed a doctor promised to do an operation skillfully, but instead did the opposite. The plaintiff’s wife died …

A brief history of Hong Kong’s medical blunders

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According to pharmacologist and medical writer David Kroll in Forbes, “if given alone without the other drugs (used in lethal injection) the high concentration of potassium chloride would be...

9 Terrifying Medical Treatments from 1900 and Their …

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3. Plombage Plombage was a risky early 20th century treatment for tuberculosis in which a surgeon would create a cavity in a patient’s lower lung and …