This website has been created by a group of medical negligence victims, their friends and family and other patient safety advocates, to bring awareness to the general public about the serious epidemic of medical negligence and errors. We will also be focusing on California's MICRA law, which has been limiting pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 for close to 40 years now.
Please note that this website is still under construction.
Read about MICRA2.2 million patients are harmed by medical errors every day in this country and 440,000 of them DIE from PREVENTABLE medical errors daily.
Don’t be one of those people that think that medical errors will never happen to you or someone you love. Get educated and make sure your stay in a hospital is as safe as it can possibly be.
But if you are harmed by a doctor or hospital in California, let us know about it. We’d also like to hear from you if you try to get help from the Medical Board of California, and they end up NOT helping you.
According to the Board’s own documents, they receive somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 complaints against doctors every year. Yet, only 4% of them are leading to discipline, leaving 96% of them without any discipline whatsoever.
Why is our legislature letting them get away with that? That’s what we’re here to find out.
If so, we want to hear about it. Email us at mystory@4patientsafety.org.
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