John Shepperd (Partner-Houston, TX) will speak on “Never Events” at the annual Texas Podiatric Medical Foundation Meeting to be held April 21–23, 2023, in Bandera, Texas. Never events are medical calamities so beyond the pale that they should never happen. The Center for Medicare Services identifies these events as 100 percent preventable. They include, for example, operating on the wrong patient, leaving a sponge or some other foreign object inside a patient or sending a newborn home with the wrong person. John will discuss the failsafe measures designed to prevent such occurrences, why they continue to occur in spite of these such measures, and how they are prosecuted and defended in a courtroom.