Report Says 195,000 Deaths Due to Hospital Error
Tue Jul 27, 2004 06:23 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as 195,000 people a year could be dying in U.S. hospitals because of easily prevented errors, a company said on Tuesday in an estimate that doubles previous figures.
This is a very sobering and upsetting report. Now, what are the causes and solutions? If most of these incidents are due to mistakes in the prescription and administration of drugs, what is needed?
Also, even though this amount of deadly error is unacceptable to me, I have to wonder how many people die from these mistakes in other countries' hospitals. I trust American medicine more than any other.
This is a very sobering and upsetting report. Now, what are the causes and solutions? If most of these incidents are due to mistakes in the prescription and administration of drugs, what is needed?
I wonder to how they compiled those stats( the causes& etc too). That is a whole lot of ppl thats for sure!. It is cheapiest to hire the ones with the least experence& education. At least thats how some look at it& right then it is true. But that dosnt take into account the future.
The more ppl you kill, mistreat etc the more lawsuits etc you have.
And the gun grabbers ignore this while wanting to take everyone's guns away because a handful of parents each year are absent minded enough not to take better care storing their firearms and some children die.
And the gun grabbers ignore this while wanting to take everyone's guns away because a handful of parents each year are absent minded enough not to take better care storing their firearms and some children die.
But that always is strange logic- more die from drowings, wrecks, etc.And noone bans, limits who owns, cars, boats, pools or skateboards or shape things.( except in ny,ny,ar,nh,de,ri, conn,mass,?[&:]....)
WE have in commen what with the criminal who uses a gun? A gun- gun ownership?? So what lol.
That is a leap to think the gun makes the criminal&too treat everyone who owns ones as such.(beforehand).
Maybe its my thinking thats not right[&:]
I just wonder how many lives are saved annually by hospitals?
If I'm deafly ill, I'm still going to a hospital regardless of the risks!!!
Trama is also a good reason to go too But desease & preventive care is good too.
Im sure they save& treat more then they kill
But congress anyways they would rather contain the cost of cable tv & breakfast cereals.
Or like here spend the money on scoccer fields*& the preforming arts. them medical care( that could mean a flight to denver or salt lake city).
Some even said why...i may never need it. I dont think most plan on giting hit with a tractortrailer truck etc?[&:]
absolutely all activities have inherent risks.....and going to a hospital is one of these for sure.
I just wonder how many lives are saved annually by hospitals?
If I'm deafly ill, I'm still going to a hospital regardless of the risks!!!
Very good points indeed, Vapodog!
Even locking yourself up and laying around the house carries serious health risks!
It's sad that there are countless activities that kill more people each year than guns, yet it's the guns that are at fault!
And don't get me wrong here, I value and respect every soldier we have, but in any given month, you will have more murders across the USA, than total Iraq war casulties!
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This is a very sobering and upsetting report. Now, what are the causes and solutions? If most of these incidents are due to mistakes in the prescription and administration of drugs, what is needed?
Also, even though this amount of deadly error is unacceptable to me, I have to wonder how many people die from these mistakes in other countries' hospitals. I trust American medicine more than any other.
The point is not the number of deaths attributed to error in our hospitals or the entire medical system overall. The point is you hear little or nothing about it. The number of doctors in the U.S. is figured to be about 700,000 and if you calculate the number of unnecessary deaths each year associated with health care the ratio is horrendous. On the other hand, there are 80 million gun owners (give or take a couple of million) and the number of deaths each year atributed to firearms usage is well under a 100,000 due to all firearms related mis-uses. The press and the antis raise a mighty stink about this but are curiously mum about causes of death such as that sited in calhunters post. More children die each year in accidental drownings in backyard wading pools than are killed by the misuse of firearms yet there is never an outcry about that.
Considering the number of patients treated each year in hospitals, which are notoriously understaffed and getting worse, I am surprised that the numbers aren't worse.
195,000 Deaths Due to Hospital Error
But desease & preventive care is good too.
