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There’s an art and a science to naming pharmaceutical drugs. Here’s what is embedded in the name on the label—and why

Professor Bruce Lambert, the director of the Center for Communication and Health at Northwestern University, has written extensively on issues pertaining to medication errors and safety,

Many nurses wonder if this could happen to them. Medication errors have been made before. But what about the next one? In the pressure cooker of pandemic-era healthcare, another mistake feels inevitable.

While Vaught has been scapegoated, the health system and executives responsible for the neglect and cover-up of this tragic death have avoided any prosecution by the state of Tennessee.

RaDonda Vaught is being scapegoated by the authorities in Nashville, Tennessee for an error in administering a paralytic agent instead of a sedative. The mistake has its roots in the negligence of hospital officials at Vanderbilt Medical Center.