The Patient Lasted Only Minutes After Being Taken Off Life Support. Then Came The Horrifying Realization It Was The Wrong Person.

ProPublica investigates the sometime fatal consequences that come with patient identification errors, including one case where a family made the decision to take a patient off life-support only to realize after the autopsy that it was a stranger instead of their loved one.

from Kaiser Health News https://ift.tt/2WBvQ9m