Medical Mistakes
06/26/07 09:54 Filed in: Medical
Malpractice
"Hospitals are terrible places for sick people."
Reaffirming the idea that, if you've got humans
involved, you will have human error, a recent Forbes
article discusses the seven scariest hospital
risks. The article does an excellent job of
detailing the inherent problems in our hospital
industry, and offers helpful advice on how to avoid becoming
the victim of medical mistakes which include
surgeon errors, infection, and incorrect
medications. The article observes that: "between
40,000 and 100,000 people die every year because
of doctors' mistakes, including surgical mishaps
and drug mix-ups. One big problem: Hospital
patients may get the wrong drug one time out of
five, according to a study by Auburn University.
The death toll from mistakes is at least as bad
as that from car accidents or breast cancer, and
maybe as bad as that from strokes."
