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About half of all surgeries involve some kind of medication error or unintended drug side effects, if a new study done at one of America’s most prestigious academic medical centers is any indication.
The rate, calculated by researchers from the anesthesiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital who observed 277 procedures there, is startlingly high compared with those in the few earlier studies. Those earlier studies relied mostly on self-reported data from clinicians, rather than directly watching operations, and found errors to be exceedingly rare.
“There is a substantial potential for medication-related harm and a number of opportunities to improve safety,” according to the new study, published today in the journal Anesthesiology . More than one-third of the observed errors led to some kind of harm to the patient.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2015, @10:29PM
orly? I pissed off a doctor by taking an interest in my own condition caring about what medication (a.k.a poisons) I take into my body and not just blindly submitting to both hir authority and prescriptions.
Still looking for a good doctor. So far I have met more drug dealers who care and are willing to have a conversation than doctors who don't seem to care and just seem to want to scribble on their pad and get me out of their office as quickly as possible getting offended and upset if I happen to have an opinion, a moderately informed but still ignorant question or, god forbid, researched my condition on the internet. Don't you know, you need a degree to push pills!