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Criminalizing medical errors will undermine patient safety

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  2. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA

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  3. Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Adashi, E.Y., Cohen, I.G. Criminalizing medical errors will undermine patient safety. Nat Med 28, 2241–2242 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01982-1

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