[js2]

I appreciate your perspective as a medic. The PDF I linked enumerates the mistakes she made and the differences between the two medicines, and I have read all that. From non-professional perspective, it seems like it was inattentional blindness.

But let me allow for a second that this is a case of gross negligence, despite the fact that CMS investigated Vanderbilt and found many other issues in the workplace:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6535181-Vanderbilt-C...

It's not clear to me how criminalizing her mistake helps prevent future medical errors. Do you think criminally prosecuting her was the right decision?

[JshWright]

I am neutral on the idea of criminal prosecution here (for the individual, I absolutely thing there should be accountability for the organization). I am generally opposed to criminal prosecution for medical errors, but it's hard to overstate how outlier this series of mistakes was in terms of the severity of the outcome and the degree of negligence demonstrated.

I think the question of "should we put this person in prison for these actions" is equivalent to any other criminal act (which isn't a clear cut answer either, in my opinion).