Surviving Medical Errors and Seeking the Truth

Just listened to this on NPR. The author went in for a routine laparoscopic surgery, and through a series or errors, ended up in a coma for a month. The hospital never told her about the errors committed by the doctors. She had to figure it out for her self.

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US. Most surgical consent forms provide no obligation on the doctors to inform the patient of errors that happen.