Foolishness is a harsh word, but when loved ones are involved it tends to get emotional.
Some of the problems I've seen are:
1) Tests, often uncomfortable, which were already done, only stopped because I informed the staff that they had been run only hours earlier.
2) Medicines which had been marked as not to be administered due to adverse reactions, readministered due to lack of documentation or notification.
3) Physical disks containing MRI data transferred personally, but utterly useless because of format problems