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Do hospitals tend to cover up medical errors?

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No: With todays checks and balances most if not all hospitals will be upright and forward about medical errors.

Answered 7/19/2012

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NO COVER UPS : Medical errors (system errors) are treated with the utmost importance in order to prevent them from happening again. Lawsuits are expensive so it behooves the administration of a hospital to thoroughly investigate any breakdowns of the system.

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