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Errors kill 15,000 aged patients a month: study




Mistakes and unavoidable problems kill an estimated 15,000 elderly U.S. patients every month in hospitals, U.S. government investigators reported on Tuesday.


More than 13 percent of patients covered by Medicare, the government health insurance for the elderly, or about 134,000 people monthly have some sort of so-called adverse event each month. These include mistakes such as surgical errors or sometimes unavoidable problems such as an infection spread in the hospital, or patients having their blood sugar fall to unusually low levels.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AF5SM20101116

Dr Palevsky's comments - At this alarming rate of hospital related deaths, why aren't the American people demanding that we manufacture a vaccine to prevent against all these deaths? Certainly, we know there are more deaths from medical errors in hospitals, than there are deaths, or even long-term health problems, in infants and children at risk for hepatitis B infection. Now, with this report, maybe we can reconsider how senseless the hepatitis B vaccine is for newborns, infants, children, and even adolescents, and focus more of our attention on the real problems facing our children - neurological conditions - autism, ADD/ADHD, PDD.NOS, speech delays, learning disabilities - obesity, diabetes, cancer, auto-immune problems, and medical/scientific deceit.

See http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/