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| One in 20 hospital deaths preventable |
| 2013-03-06 |
| Poor hospital care is "needlessly killing 1,000 NHS patients a month", The Daily Telegraph headline reads. It says that the largest ever study of errors in British hospitals has found that one patient in 10 is affected by potentially serious medical errors, with half of them dying as a result. I case you wondered why your elected representatives did not apply Obamacare to themselves. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 This is a problem in every developed country. And in primitive countries, 'health care providers' may be killed if/when they fail. That cultural practice does wonders for the quality of medical arts there. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-03-06 18:21 |
| #8 This is a problem in every developed country. We docs all know that hospitals are dangerous places. There are plenty of preventable errors that occur daily in hospitals. It's a combination of human nature, stupidity, inattention to detail, not understanding best practices, and bureaucracy (but I repeat myself repeatedly). I'm sure I'm as guilty as anyone else. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-03-06 10:49 |
#7 the stats are worse than the NHS Bullshit. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-03-06 10:44 |
| #6 I ran across an article on the US Health care system and the stats are worse than the NHS. Close to 100,000 die each year from medical malpractice, another 10-12,000 die from malprescription, and close to another 90,000 die each year die from misdiagnosis, as opposed to normal malpractice...OUR health care system kills almost 300,000 a year and narry a whimper. The AMA pays way too much to the Dems for that and the trial lawyers pay the rest...so the medical malpractice system shoots the innocent and rewards the incompetent. Only 5% of people injured by malpractice file a lawsuit and almost 75% of all medical malpractice awards go to claimants who were not harmed (mostly birth defects, genetic issues, and people dying after surgery that would have died anyway.). |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-06 10:37 |
| #5 Most hospital deaths are preventable - just discharge the patients before they croak. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-03-06 08:54 |
| #4 12,000 killed by the NHS per year is a massive understatement of the problem. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-03-06 07:14 |
| #3 It's known as the National Death Service over here. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-03-06 07:11 |
| #2 DNR means Do Not Resuscitate. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-03-06 07:10 |
| #1 No, in the Obamacare glossary of terms, DNR does not mean Department of Natural Resources ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-06 07:01 |