Hidden Dangers of Hospitals

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The dangers of hospitals
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Hospitals are a place where we all go to get
better. But as per some studies, many hospitals
are making people more sick at a disturbing rate.
Overtired interns, germ-covered doctors, chaotic
record keeping are some of the facts that put a
patient into more trouble than he/she were when
they checked.
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Medical Errors
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A person is 33,000x more likely to die from a
hospital error than a plane crash.
A person has a chance of 1 in 300 to die due to a
hospital error.
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1 in 5 of patients in hospitals get injured by
medical errors.
Studies show that around 200,00 people die from
medical errors and infections.
Many billions are cost for medical errors.
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Reasons for errors
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Interns are forced to work over time in many
hospitals. Some interns do 5 or more 24 hour
shift in a month. Chances of harmful errors from
these interns are high and a huge part of this
result in death. This over time work is dangerous
both to the patients and the interns.
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Around 7000 patients died from medication errors.
Medication error is giving a patient the wrong
medication or too much medication. The best
solution for this is to implement computerized
record keeping.
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Some errors are made unintentionally, but some
errors are caused by negligence. There are
provisions to claim for the injury a patient had
suffered due to the negligence from the
hospital's part. The hospitals usually will have
a lawyer with them for these kinds of cases and
they may try to settle a patient with the lowest
possible compensation. You must need someone who
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