There has been a lot written in recent years about the number of people who die as a result of medical errors they suffer while in hospitals or other care facilities. The first shocker in this regard came in 1999, with a report published in the Institute of Medicine...
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Month: February 2015
All med-tech that glitters is not gold. How can you know?
Advances in medicine are happening all the time. Often they are hugely important and deserve to have word of them spread. Sometimes they may be important, but in the absence of any solid data proving their value, they should be studied with a certain level of healthy...
Where does appendicitis fall on the list misdiagnosed conditions?
The medical profession has been on the job of uncovering what ails the human body and trying to promote healing for a lot of years. If you Google the phrase "earliest doctor" one of the things you will learn is that the first person to actually go by the official...
Reports on cutting hospital patient harm show work still needed
Back in 1999, the U.S. Institute of Medicine dropped a bombshell on the health care industry. It reported that anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying in the nation's hospitals every year due to medical negligence and errors committed in the operating rooms,...