Unfortunate, but true. There are the egregious cases that come to mind where surgery is performed on the wrong body part, patients are misdiagnosed causing a series of complications, harmful medications are prescribed to patients with a known allergic reaction, and so on. Of course, some of these instances result in the death of the patient. The purpose of this blog is not to elaborate on how or why those instances occur, but to speak to something that is seen more commonly i