When healthcare workers make mistakes, even culpable mistakes, they are usually not faced with criminal sanctions. Maybe they will internal sanctions like staff privilege restrictions, maybe civil liability, and maybe licensing board discipline. Criminal sanctions are rare.
But it sometimes happens. Last month, the New York Attorney General charged nine staff members of a nursing home for failing to connect a patient's ventilator, for ignoring alarms, and for covering up the patient's death.
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