Description
A man is declared dead by a hospital system. The problem is, he’s still alive. When a state-of-the-art electronic health record merges two patients into one, a living man is quietly reclassified as deceased. No alarms. No override. Just procedures executing as designed. Resident physician Sarah Chen discovers the error while trying to admit a patient with chest pain. What should be a simple fix becomes a maze of authorizations, vendor contracts, liability fears, and institutional denial. As delays mount and similar cases surface, it becomes clear this is not a glitch - but a systemic failure no one wants exposed. The Margin of Error is the first novel in a series examining how modern systems - medical, legal, financial, and algorithmic - fail not through malice, but through optimization, incentives, and silence. No conspiracies. No villains. Just systems doing exactly what they were built to do.
About the Author
Harlan Cross is the author of "THE MARGIN OF ERROR" and other works.
