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View Blog: Her infant son died in 2001 after a surgery that included a series of medical errors. She's unhappy that Pennsylvania's patient safety board wasn't set up to respond to the concerns of patients and families.

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View Post: A Healthy Blog » Medical Errors and Empowered Patients
18 Nov 2009 by HCFA  
Medical Errors and Empowered Patients. CNN.com reports on the story of a pregnant woman named Kerry who was given a CT scan of the abdomen when she went in to the emergency room after experiencing bleeding. ...
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View Post: Burnout, depression lead to “major medical errors” by surgeons
24 Nov 2009 by jg  
If so, you'll be surprised to learn almost nine percent of surgeons who responded to an unscientific survey commissioned by the American College of Surgeons said they were concerned they had made a “major medical error.” ...
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View Post: Reducing Fatal medical errors- US delegation to Bangalore
25 Nov 2009 by neeleshbhandari@gmail.com (drneelesh)  
Fatal medical errors in health care services are much commoner than generally believed. The number of years of potential life lost from potential medication errors is greater than the number of years of potential life lost from all ...
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View Post: Regulators 'must have teeth' says RCN as hospital vows to cut ...
17 hours ago
In 1999, the seminal Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report entitled To Err is Human illuminated that the number of patients who die in US hospitals every year due to preventable medical errors was equivalent to a jumbo jet airliner ...
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