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It’s hard to believe, but more deaths come from medical errors than deaths from car accidents, breast cancer and AIDS.
In 2000, the Institute of Medicine concluded that medical errors account for more deaths than motor-vehicle accidents per year. The study called for improvements in the medical profession and found the following:
• Preventable adverse events are [...]
A recent study conducted at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis questions the effectiveness of brain monitors used to prevent anesthesia awareness.
Anesthesia awareness is a rare condition where patient remain awake and feel pain while in surgery.
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The Journal of Urology recently published a study that suggests that urologists could cut their medical malpractice risk by referring difficult cases. They surveyed 20 years of data from a liability insurance company in New York.
The new study finds those strategies are useless against one of the most common risks: missed or delayed diagnoses. A [...]