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Medical Mistakes

The father of medicine, Hippocrates, taught that in practising medicine, the rule that comes before all others is... do no harm. A new study published in the British medical journal "The Lancet", finds that CONSIDERABLE harm was done to patients in a large American teaching hospital. Korva talks with Professor Lori Andrews, one of the authors of this report.

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