alt Hacker NewsI was curious so I looked it up. Human doctors medication administration error rate is about 20%, but only about 8% excluding timing errors.
> Medication errors were common (nearly 1 of every 5 doses in the typical hospital and skilled nursing facility). The percentage of errors rated potentially harmful was 7%, or more than 40 per day in a typical 300-patient facility. The problem of defective medication administration systems, although varied, is widespread.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
> In all, 91 unique studies were included. The median error rate (interquartile range) was 19.6% (8.6-28.3%) of total opportunities for error including wrong-time errors and 8.0% (5.1-10.9%) without timing errors, when each dose could be considered only correct or incorrect