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...according to Professor of English and American Literature Daniel G. Donoghue, England might have missed the millennium. The king's scribes, he said, kept faulty records, and may have thought the date was 1049 or 1069, when it was actually 999. The error was not discovered until it was already 1000, he said lightheartedly...
...problem, however, is that Pap tests are not always accurate. The results can be skewed due to human error in spreading the samples on slides and in reading the results. Since each of the hundreds of thousands of cells needs to be examined, abnormal cells are often missed. It is estimated that 20 to 40 percent of lesions are missed...
...team, including HSPH professor Lucian Leape and David W. Bates of HMS, found that 6.5 percent of all patients were the victims of some kind of medication error...
After the study, Brigham and Women's Hospital instituted computer programs to regulate drug misuse, and found that the rate of error decreased by 55 percent...
According to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal '59, most medical errors are not caused by human error, but rather by breakdowns in communication...