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by hNewsLover99
3771 days ago
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Talk about "Lies, damned lies and statistics." Why do these reports always understate, by many orders of magnitude, the number of U.S. patients killed by medical errors every year? 440,000 patients are killed by avoidable errors each year in hospitals alone, according to a 2013 hospital industry organization report.* And don't forget about non-error-related iatrogenic fatalities, such as fatal cancers induced by CT scans, which the Archives of Internal Medicine estimates to kill 15,000 patients per year. Or about non-fatal iatrogenic injuries, both error-induced and non-error-induced, many of which result in mortality in subsequent years. No exaggeration to say that U.S. healthcare workers are one of the most lethal forces on Earth today. Sources:
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/why-are-medical-... http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/newsroom/display/hospital... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3Gh7a-FVQ |
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