How Veterans Affairs failed to stop a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 cases. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

How Veterans Affairs failed to stop a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 cases. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Newspaper/Magazine Article
 
• Published August 2019

How Veterans Affairs failed to stop a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 cases.

Rein L. Washington Post. August 30, 2019.

Clinicians are often reluctant to report impaired or incompetent colleagues. This newspaper article discusses how a Veterans Affairs system pathologist with substance addiction continued to misdiagnose patients despite performance concerns raised by colleagues.

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