Primum non nocere — Latin for “first, do no harm” has been enshrined by the medical practice since the times of the Hippocratic Oath. Unfortunately erring is part of the human condition and despite all the checks and balances, medicine does have a fair share of it. In fact for many years now medical errors are reported as the third leading cause of deaths in the US, the graph below being a Johns Hopkins study from 2016. To put this in perspective consider that medical errors are far more prevalent than other types of accidental deaths: And the number of…...
Can Startups Disrupt Medical Errors?
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