Ways You Can Help Your Family Prevent Medical Errors!

Medical errors are mistakes that can happen with your health care. Medical errors can hurt or even kill people.

The Government, hospitals, doctors, and others are working hard to prevent medical errors. The tips here show what you can do to help keep you and your family safe. These tips are based on studies by many medical researchers.

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What Are Medical Errors?

Medical errors are mistakes that can happen with medicine, surgery, tests, and other parts of your health care. Here is an example of a medical error:

Getting the wrong medicine is a medical error.

Cartoon showing woman who calls her doctor after taking medicine and feeling worse. He tells her to look at the label on the medicine. After she tells him what is on the label, he says that the medicine is not what he ordered.

What Can You Do?

You can help protect yourself and your family from medical errors. The most important way you can do this is to talk. Talk to your doctor, nurse, and other health care workers.

Cartoon: Patient tells health care provider that he is having a problem

Cartoon: Patients should ask questions

Cartoon: You can make decisions about your health care with your doctors

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