Patient Safety
10 Mistakes People Make at Their Doctor Visits
Faceboo Mistake 1: Not Preparing The average doctor’s appointment lasts about 18 minutes. Preparing ahead of time will help you get the most out of those minutes. Make lists so you have important information readily...
Doctors Perform Thousands of Unnecessary Surgeries: Are You Getting One of Them?
Summary: According to a USA Today review of government records and medical databases, tens of thousands of patients undergo unnecessary surgery each and every year• Among the most commonly performed unnecessary surgeries are cardiac angioplasties,...
Communication Failures Linked to 1,744 Deaths in Five Years
By MELISSA BAILEY, for STAT. Hospitals and doctors’ offices nationwide might have avoided nearly 2,000 patient deaths — and $1.7 billion in malpractice costs — if medical staff and patients communicated better, a report released… Read More
Grants to Duke Suspended Amid Concern for Patient Safety
By Ivan Oransky, MD for Medscape Medical News. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year suspended seven grants to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, “to assure the welfare and safety of research… Read More
Sophisticated Health Care Marketing Campaigns Dangerous for Consumers
Health Care Industry Spends $30B A Year Pushing Its Wares, From Drugs To Stem Cell Treatment By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News. Hoping to earn its share of the $3.5 trillion health care market, the… Read More
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
Patients at Risk: Big Pharma Pays Thousands of 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...
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