Unsafe healthcare is an ongoing problem

Medication errors, including prescribing the wrong dosage, are among the issues involved in patient safety. — Filepic

The axiom that all medical students are taught is “Primum non nocere (First, do no harm)”.

That there are risks to healthcare delivery since the end of World War 2 was stated succinctly by British senior consultant paediatric nephrologist Sir Dr Cyril Chantler in 1998: “Medicine used to be simple, ineffective and relatively safe.