Going to the Hospital?...better be careful.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.php

In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA


An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.php

In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA


An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company.

That happened to my mother. She went in for a simple hernia operation and they punctured her esophagus. She nearly died from sepsis.

I always wonder how many get slid under the sheets and go unreported....

There needs to be peer review with teeth......or reverse the tort reform which makes it more difficult for an injured party to seek recourse.....my personal belief that the solution is peer review and transparency. The Doc who screwed up my diagnosis, left after screwing up many other people.....he goes to the next place and screws up, and then the next, and so on........where is the accountability.