Tuesday, February 26, 2008

321 - Medical mistakes (somebody pay attention)

Since 9/11 when 3,000 people died, a couple of hundred have died at the hands of terrorists but more than 600,000 people have died from medical mistakes. Here's a more up to date article about the hospital problems that cause close to 100,000 deaths a year.

Link - Medical mistakes
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3 comments:

John A Hill said...

I read a similar article recently but can't remember where. You know 50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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Mike said...

I met a doctor that told me he was in the 95th percentile of his class. But I think he forgot to mention the end he was counting from.

RSS - I don't know. I might. I think I need some motivation.

Bilbo said...

That was obviously a case of percentile dysfunction.