Health

Medical Errors

WTTW News | April 18, 2011, 7:00 pm

Chicago Sun-Times chairman and Mesirow Financial CEO Jim Tyree's death at the University of Chicago hospital sparked a federal probe. We talk about the results and how electronic records could cut down on medical errors.

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