Hospital Kill More Than Plane Crashes - Indian Press Admits.

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Actually what they have not said is that hospitals kill more than road accidents

too, as per an American survey. - Jagannath.

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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#1

 

 

We 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

 

 

 

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