Dec 29, 2012, 07:50 AM
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Would you seek damages if: RESULTS: "Never," according to their findings, occurs at least 4,082 times per year. Deaths attributable to these mistakes occurred in 6.6 percent of patients, 32.9 claimed permanent injury, and payments doled out totaled $1.3 billion.
Looked at another way, the researchers estimate that every week, 39 foreign objects are left behind in a patient's body, 20 procedures are performed on the wrong body site, and another 20 are the wrong procedure to begin with. And 12.4 percent of surgeons were repeat offenders.
CONCLUSION: Preventable errors, the researchers conclude, are exacting a serious toll on patients and the health care system.http://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...tients/266489/
Like many things, "it depends on whose ox is being gored."
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