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Group: Medical Errors Still Killing 98,000 Each Year (More than guns- Ban Doctors!)
Foxnews ^
| 5/20/2009
| Staff
Posted on 05/20/2009 8:12:10 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Despite a decade of promises, little has been done to fix the problem of preventable medical errors that kill nearly 98,000 people in the United States each year, a consumer group said on Tuesday.
Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, said lawmakers largely have failed to enact patient safety reforms recommended by a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine or IOM that found that medical errors cost the United States $17 billion to $29 billion a year.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accidents; botchedabortions; healthcare; medicalmalpractice
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To: Red in Blue PA
No, get the government involved more.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:15:02 AM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
To: Red in Blue PA
Nationalized health care will solve this problem once and for all.
/sarcasm
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:15:54 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Doctors don't kill patients...Surgical instruments do.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:16:19 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Red in Blue PA
Wait’ll they’re government run.... that number will drop because fewer people wil get permission to get the appropriate treatment from Obamacare..... ‘specially the elderly.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:17:18 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspell.)
To: Red in Blue PA
UNLIKE with arms, there is NO Constitutional Right to medical care - not at ANY price! Nevertheless, when doctors are outlawed, only outlaws will be doctors.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:18:21 AM PDT
by
2harddrive
(...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
To: Dixie Yooper
Doctors don't kill patients...Surgical instruments do. Not really - most are killed by being given the wrong medicine or improper dose.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:20:52 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: Red in Blue PA
Remember the doctors’ strike that shut hospitals down about 20 years ago...and they had to settle their strike because the mortality rate was declining so embarrassingly?
Stay out of the doctor’s office and hospital if at all possible. Many patients go in for some minor matter and do not survive the experience.
To: Red in Blue PA
Why do you think they call it a “practice”.
Q) Know what they call the guy who finishes last in his class in Medical School?
A) doctor
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:27:16 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
To: kittymyrib
Do you have a link for that? I would certainly be interested.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:31:03 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
To: 2harddrive
They aren’t going to outlaw doctors. They will be treated like prostitutes. If you pay them for it, it’s a crime.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:32:06 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: Red in Blue PA
According to the CDC numbers I found, 30,896 people die of gun related incidents each year. You are 3 times more likely of dying from a medical error than a gun. Crazy stuff.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:34:15 AM PDT
by
lovecraft
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: Red in Blue PA
This information will be used as ammunition to ‘automate’ records, which will be part of the Messiah’s health ‘reforms’.
Fox News is being his stooge.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:39:17 AM PDT
by
lacrew
(Axe not what your teleprompter can do for you....)
To: Red in Blue PA
so if they outlaw any kind o malpractice suits then those 98,000 will become...? “non standard terminations”? “post birth abortion”? “Administrative Non-life”?
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:39:50 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: lovecraft
According to the CDC numbers I found, 30,896 people die of gun related incidents each year. You are 3 times more likely of dying from a medical error than a gun. Crazy stuff.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:42:47 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
To: lacrew
automating medical records is just an excuse, the government wants to know all about our individual lives to the extreme.
The ability to collect personal information is the ability to tax based on personal information.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:44:29 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Red in Blue PA
I work for a medical device company. I review reports on patient injuries.
It is scary how many doctors and nurses screw up and can’t follow very simple and straight forward directions (or don’t bother to read them).
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:47:59 AM PDT
by
toast
To: from occupied ga
My maternal grandfather was killed (at a relatively young age - before I was born) by a medication mixup which occurred while he was in a hospital bed surrounded by family. He had a mild problem which required the administration of a procoagulant but was instead given a huge dose of anticoagulant at the cusp of a shift change. He bled from everywhere, nose, eyes, ears, etc (my grandmother, who lived through some horrific stuff in WWII, including the death of two children, one violently, fainted) and he was basically dead by the time someone found it appropriate to do their job. Big hospital in Canada. They sent flowers.
My paternal grandfather died slowly because of an injection with a dirty needle, performed at a VA clinic in Florida. (he first suffered paralysis, then lost his feet, then both legs at the knees, then above the knees) He was maybe three or four years into his well-earned retirement when "the regrettable medical error" happened.
No lawsuits or payouts in either case of course.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:49:45 AM PDT
by
M203M4
(A rainbow-excreting government-cheese-pie-eating unicorn in every pot.)
To: Red in Blue PA
If vicitms of medical errors think it’s tough getting settlement from their insurance carrier, wait until they have to get it from Washington.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:50:33 AM PDT
by
bobjam
To: from occupied ga
Where I work, we just fax the prescriptions to the hospital pharmacy. Thank God, because I can hardly read about half of the physicans' med orders. I don't know how the pharmacy manages to fill them.
By the end of 2010, we will have in place the system whereby the physicans key in their own orders. But there are a few old codger doctors who will refuse to do that. They've hand written orders for decades and, by God, they are not going to change now.
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posted on
05/20/2009 8:50:54 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
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