Guest guest Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Actually what they have not said is that hospitals kill more than road accidents too, as per an American survey. - Jagannath. -------------------------------- Newsreport in The Telegraph, India. Dec 05, 2005. Hospitals kill more than plane crashes If you feel safer in a hospital than on an airplane, think again. The risk of being killed in a hospital even in a developed country due to medical error is around one in 300, while that of dying in an air accident is one in 10 million, according to Britain’s chief medical officer. “Paradoxically, people are more frightened of air travel than they are of healthcare,” Liam Donaldson, who also chairs the World Health Organisation’s World Alliance for Patient Safety, told a conference. Over 2,000 patients died in hospitals in Britain last year because of accidents and errors. About half of those cases — which included mis-diagnoses, life-threatening delays in treatment and patients being given the wrong medication — could have been avoided if lessons from previous accidents had been learned. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051205/asp/knowhow/story_5548531.asp#1We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. -- General Omar Bradley Personals Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. Lots of someones, actually. Personals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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