This post from Dr. Helen seems somehow relevant to this recent one by me, in terms of not bothering to read the whole paper (and in this case, not even necessarily understanding it, even if they did).

Having an RN Nurse as your S.O. you learn a few things about what exactly doctors are capable of. She often has to track down the doctors to clarify a confusing order. Either they don't carry the decimal points correctly, use the wrong annotation, or just write some indecipherable symbols leaving it for someone else to catch and figure out.

Part of a nursing program requires that a student go through so many hours of malpractice awareness training. This requires going to mock trials, like a Perry Mason play, and reading transcripts of medical malpractice testimony. I skimmed some stuff about a trial in which a RN was being sued because she killed a patient due to a dosing mishap. Apparently, she was at the end of a 20 hour shift, had several high needs ICU patients, and simply didn't catch the fact that the doctor had incorrectly prescribed a powerful cardiac medicine. This was a medicine that needed to be given in very tiny amounts over an extended period of time. She simply followed what the doctors order had indicated to the letter and the patient died.

When they examined the order more closely they found out that the doctor had prescribed a dosage large enough to kill an elephant. However, in Texas, the party held responsible is the person that actually administers a medication into a persons body. Therefore, the doctor skated by and the nurse was held liable.