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Lucylastic -> RE: Man "protecting his home" shoots & kills door-to-door salesman (7/31/2012 7:42:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: papassion
I just looked up "medical error statistics." It said in ONE decade, 8 million deaths were attributed to medical errors. It said that is more than the ALL the casualties of ALL the wars the US has ever fought in! And that is just one decade. Seems to me, hospitals are way more deadly than guns! Lets focus our energy on improving hospitals!
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/justice/hs.xsl/8677.htm
Course, you dooooo have a source for that dont you??? because according to the American Association of Justice
your numbers are off, by ooooh quite a bit
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/justice/hs.xsl/8677.htm
Preventable medical errors kill and seriously injure hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Any discussion of medical negligence that does not involve preventable medical errors ignores this fundamental problem. And while some interested parties would prefer to focus on doctors’ insurance premiums, health care costs, or alternative compensation systems—anything other than the negligence itself—reducing medical errors is the best way to address all the related problems. Preventing medical errors will lower health care costs, reduce doctors’ insurance premiums, and protect the health and well-being of patients.
The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) seminal study of preventable medical errors estimated as many as 98,000 people die every year at a cost of $29 billion. If the Centers for Disease Control were to include preventable medical errors as a category, these conclusions would make it the sixth leading cause of death in America.
Further research has confirmed the extent of medical errors. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that there were 181,000 severe injuries attributable to medical negligence in 2003. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates there are 15 million incidents of medical harm each year. HealthGrades, the nation’s leading healthcare rating organization, found that Medicare patients who experienced a patient-safety incident had a one-in-five chance of dying as a result.
In the decade since the IOM first shined a light on the dismal state of patient safety in American hospitals, many proposals for improvement have been discussed and implemented. But recent research indicates that there is still much that needs to be done. Researchers at the Harvard School of Medicine have found that even today, about 18 percent of patients in hospitals are injured during the course of their care and that many of those injuries are life-threatening, or even fatal. The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that one in seven Medicare patients are injured during hospital stays and that adverse events during the course of care contribute to the deaths of 180,000 patients every year."
Anecdotal information suggests medicare patients who have serious falls, due to falling out of bed, confusion, tripping and falling, breaking a brittle bone, is very likely to result in rapid decline in health.
Sending people home too soon after a procedure, or with poor follow up or medical devices inserted, will often result in having to be re admitted with infections, chest infections etc.
Not having enough front line staff to deal with care of wounds, infection, mobility, pressure sores, are a huge problem(that is down to money and getting rid of "medicare" only patients as fast as possible, or released due to insurance running out...
Of course, there is also the problem with people finding objects left inside them and wrong parts being removed or orperated on, ....
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