Largest cost hospitals pay. Insurance. They get sued for the smallest error. Doctors are not going to be perfect all the time, but if they fuck up and leave a small scar they get sued for 8 million for pain and suffering. There need to be laws limiting the liability of medical professionals and the amount that a patient receives when errors occur, or have them sign off before treatment that they won't sue.  Hospitals are woefully out of date. PAPER records. PAPER. Like manilla files. In what day and age are we here where you can't scan and enter everything into a computer. Even a 20 year old computer. Shit, google hires ex cons for $10 an hour to scan books. Get some fat nurses to do it when they are not working.