Posted on 01/06/2009 10:22:51 AM PST by george76
The number of hospital patients killed by mistakes has risen by 60 per cent in two years...
NHS records show that 3,645 people died as a result of "patient safety incidents" - including botched operations and the outbreak of infections - between April 2007 and March 2008. The figure was 1,370 higher than two years earlier.
Patient groups have warned that the true toll is likely to be higher because some hospitals do not record all incidents.
"Patients are already extremely nervous when they have to go to hospital, so they need this news like a hole in the head."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That is a huge spike. From a statistical point of view either they are counting more things as errors than they used to, or something really really bad has happened.
Nothing like disinterested government employees giving critical care.
The rate in America is something like 90,000/year.
Welcome to Obamacare
Incidents of holes being improperly placed in people's heads are up only 10%.
Wait’ll it’s free!
Things that make you go, hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Is my math bad, or are there about 2800 patient deaths left unaccounted for by the article?
All the effeciency of the Post office and the warmth of the IRS at PENTAGON prices
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It’s the change in the rate that’s interesting. How has ours changed in the last two years?
Too many avoidable scalpel deaths.
People really don't need scalpels anyway, when they can't get through the line at the government rationed medical system.
Thinking of that old Cosby routine, this is never good:
Doctor: Sponge...Clamp...Forceps...Oops!
Patient: Whaddyasay?
Doctor: Nothin’
Patient: You said - ‘Oops,’ didn’t you? Now what did you do?
Doctor: Nothin’
Patient: Whaddaya mean, nothin’? What did you do? I know what I did when I say - ‘Oops.’ Now what did you do?
Jihad medicine in Britainistan?
Oopsie, didn't mean to unhook your ventilator, praise allah.
No washing hands and arms
I believe that...doctors have almost killed my husband 3 times in the last 2 years. Twice with medications he shouldn’t have been prescribed due to his heart condition, which I caught and corrected them on, even to the point of having to recommend a substitution. The other was with faulty sternum wires which exploded in his chest after his triple bypass and they would not listen to his complaints about the pain. Two wires were broken and he had a 1 inch piece of wire just floating around in his chest cavity for almost a year before they finally did an x-ray. He just had surgery to remove them a month ago.
You are correct. England has a serious problem with infections in their hospitals. Most of the missing deaths are because of that.
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