Posted on 03/29/2020 4:48:03 PM PDT by Enlightened1
“My little angel” is how Christopher Jerry describes his daughter Emily.
At just a year and a half, Emily was diagnosed with a massive abdominal tumor and endured numerous surgeries and rigorous chemotherapy before finally being declared cancer-free. But just to be sure, doctors encouraged Chris and his wife to continue with Emily’s last scheduled chemotherapy session, a three-day treatment that would begin on her second birthday.
On the morning of her final day of treatment, a pharmacy technician prepared the intravenous bag, filling it with more than 20 times the recommended dose of sodium chloride. Within hours Emily was on life support and declared brain dead.
Three days later she was gone.
Sadly, Emily’s case is not unique. According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
Other studies report much higher figures, claiming the number of deaths from medical error to be as high as 440,000. The reason for the discrepancy is that physicians, funeral directors, coroners and medical examiners rarely note on death certificates the human errors and system failures involved. Yet death certificates are what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rely on to post statistics for deaths nationwide.
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Yet we are suppose to be very afraid of Coronavirus...., and shut down the U.S. economy while China has opened after a month.
My mother was one of them.
You’re conflating things that have little to do with one another.
That’s exactly what he’s doing. Very well said.
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No, Enlightened1 is providing a different perspective on death rates and the response society has.
My father almost a year and a half ago.
Well yeah, because if we get Coronvirus, we're going to end up in the hospital and die from a medical error.
So you just made the case.
250,000 to 400,000..... now I will never get out of the house.....
It’s not just us though
Seeing images of world cities with empty streets is eerie
Experienced and aggressive malpractice attorneys are waiting to take your call.
1-888-YOUDEAD
We are talking about types of deaths....
How is that conflating deaths?
I am sorry for your loss.
Anything chemical or biological I will not go to a hospital.
Now if I am in a car accident, have a broken bone, need stitches, then yes I will go.
A very long time friend from contracting hepatitis complements of poor OR sanitary practices.
I’m sorry
Fully 10% of IP orders have some degree of embedded error. Multiple layers of protection prevent them from harming patients but still some get through.
what's the difference between God and a surgeon?
I think he/she is guilty of very simplistic ‘thinking’.
Medical errors are tragic, but they do not represent the immediate danger that a highly infectious, fast-spreading disease represents - one which can affect hundreds of thousands all on its own in a very short time - AND can quickly overwhelm our healthcare system.
(With all respect to those with legitimate and very thoughtful concerns: Freepers are always talking about LIFE and how much they value it. But a lot of them have seemed lately to care most about Money.)
What do you call a doctor who graduated last in his class? Old joke, but it applies here I think. Similarly, what do you call a doctor who’s put in 70 hours a week on average for a couple of months in a row? A lot of them around, too.
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