Patient Safety
Elite Hospitals Plunge Into Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
Hospitals are exploiting desperate patients by marketing controversial stem cell procedures without any proven benefits. By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News. The six-minute segment in an online video mimics a morning talk show, using a… Read More
Top 10 Fatal or Harmful Prescribing Errors.
By Alia Paavola, Becker’s Hospital Review. Below is a list of 10 top prescribing errors that cause death or severe harm to patients, as cited by, ‘The Pharmaceutical Journal’. Drug prescriptions were omitted or delayed. An analysis of...
Big Pharma Pays Thousands of Bad Docs
How Pharmaceutical Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors. By Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica. Drug companies spend $30 billion annually on marketing. More than $2 billion in payments to doctors, other medical providers and...
25 Cities Where You Don’t Want to Get Sick
By Thomas C. Frohlich, 247wallst.com. 25. Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ > 30 day readmission rate:16.4% (highest 10%) > 30 day mortality rate:13.3% > Preventable hospitalizations: 48.6 per 1,000 patients > No. of physicians: 46.7 per 100,000 (lowest 10%)...
The Biggest Mistakes Doctors Make
By Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal. Misdiagnoses are harmful and costly. But they’re often preventable. A patient with abdominal pain dies from a ruptured appendix after a doctor fails to do a complete physical...
Surgery to Avoid
By Nicholas Bakalkar, The New York Times. Even Minor Procedures Come With Major Risks The four operations discussed below are often over performed. Some are moneymakers for doctors and hospitals, others are expedient and still...
Medical Secrets
By J. Klein, for APRA. Hospitals Everyone who seeks treatment at a hospital emergency room or an urgent care center associated with a hospital in America risks unnecessary admission, financial ruin and even death. Preventable...
The Hidden Epidemic – Preventable Medical Errors
From the George Washington University School of Public Health. In 2013 a report in the Journal of Patient Safety stated that preventable medical errors that occur in hospitals are the third leading cause of death in… Read More
10 Surefire Ways to Ease Pain
From NHS Choices. Whether your pain has just come on or you’ve lived with it for years, these tried-and-tested self-help steps can bring you relief. Get some gentle exercise Simple, everyday activity like walking, swimming, gardening...