Chasing Zero Ethical Dilemmas

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Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm

Ethical and legal problems arise in the presence of divergences in values, shifting professional roles, technological advances, and social problems that impact the quality of life. Every day, nurses all over the place have long struggled with ethical challenges in patient care. Each year, medical mistakes kill nearly 100,000 people and these mistakes are made by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and even medical students.
Chasing Zero is a documentary established to lessen medical errors within the healthcare system as well as to educate people on the prevalence of medical harm. In 2007, actor Dennis Quaid and his wife experienced a near fatal medical error that almost cost the lives of their
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