Posted on 09/24/2012 6:00:51 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
When there is a plane crash in the U.S., even a minor one, it makes headlines. There is a thorough federal investigation, and the tragedy often yields important lessons for the aviation industry. Pilots and airlines thus learn how to do their jobs more safely.
The world of American medicine is far deadlier: Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets. But these mistakes go largely unnoticed by the world at large, and the medical community rarely learns from them. The same preventable mistakes are made over and over again, and patients are left in the dark about which hospitals have significantly better (or worse) safety records than their peers.
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“My wife will NOT allow a family member to be left alone in a Hospital. We just don’t trust them.”
Same here. We NEVER, EVER allow a loved one to be alone in a hospital. EVER.
“My wife will NOT allow a family member to be left alone in a Hospital. We just don’t trust them.”
Same here. We NEVER, EVER allow a loved one to be alone in a hospital. EVER.
I wish they would concentrate on the CAUSE of diseases rather than treatments, but there’s little money in that.
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