Sunday, July 23, 2006
Medical Errors Injure 1.5 Million
It is difficult to justify injuring 1.5 million Ameicans every year with drug errors, and these are just the hospital injuries, not the 1.6 million people that have to go to the emergency room every year with adverse drug reactions. Researchers found that on average, a patient in a hospital setting is subject to one drug error per day. It is no wonder that a doctor’s greatest fear is becoming a patient. Even harder to grasp is the solution that will take another four years to computerize all prescriptions. Whatever happened to daily competent work? Are we to beleive that those in the health profession are nothing but bumbling idiots, injuring and killing their patients? How competent could the diagnosis be in the first place? Read report.
