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WiccanLiberal
09-22-2012, 10:18 AM
"When there is a plane crash in the U.S., even a minor one, it makes headlines. There is a thorough federal investigation, and the tragedy often yields important lessons for the aviation industry. Pilots and airlines thus learn how to do their jobs more safely.

The world of American medicine is far deadlier: Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets. But these mistakes go largely unnoticed by the world at large, and the medical community rarely learns from them. The same preventable mistakes are made over and over again, and patients are left in the dark about which hospitals have significantly better (or worse) safety records than their peers."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578008263334441352.html?m od=googlenews_wsj


This is a very good commentary on medicine and hospitals from the inside. BTW, my current hospital has a firm 'red light' policy. ANYONE involved in a procedure that feels something unsafe is happening can stop it. And our computer documentation means that time for endoscopies are part of the record although we still don't have routine video recording.