What Doctors Don't Tell YouNearly a fifth of operations performed during weekday evenings and 7 per cent of those performed during the daytime and at weekends are performed by unsupervised junior doctors. ...
In WDDTY vol 5 no 4, , we reported that a third of people in Britain are given the wrong blood for transfusion. ...
BLOOD PRESSURE: Check the equipment before you check the patient
First, the bad news. New estimates suggest that more than 2000 people die in UK hospitals every year as a direct result of staff errors. The far worse news is that the figures are wildly conservative, partly because very few hospital staff members...
Unconscious patients in emergency rooms in the US are often being treated with experimental drugs or unapproved medical devices without their consent. ...
Our daughter was born in May 1995. She needed oxygen and had to be ventilated. Finally, we took her home in mid July and she seemed to be well. Then in January, she developed an infection which me ...
I recently spent five days in my local hospital after fracturing my left wrist and dislocating the radius [the bone on the thumb side of the forearm that makes up part of the wrist joint].
Europe is the worst region in the world for giving encouragement to new mothers to breastfeed, and where the influence of bottlefeeding has been strongest and most long lasting, according to UNICE ...
Multiple prescriptions are often used as shortcuts or as devices to avoid responsibility for establishing an accurate diagnosis. ...
