Tag Archives: Medical mistakes (see also Legal issues/actions and Laboratory errors)

February 2022—It was Isaac Asimov who surmised: “The most exciting phrase to hear in science is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny . . .’” And it was coagulation processing in the clinical laboratory that, in a small way, illustrated Asimov’s axiom for Dorothy Adcock, MD, former chief medical officer, Labcorp Diagnostics.

December 2013—Quality systems and quality management plans can be as solid as a laboratory can make them and still lab errors will occur. And as laboratories become more automated and test volumes grow, the potential for large-scale errors grows too.