What Doctors Don't Tell YouA recent US document published by the Institute of Medicine showed that up to 98,000 people die in the US each year due to medical error more than die in motor vehicle accidents. ...
The nation may be shocked to learn that over one million Britons are harmed by hospital errors every year - a regular WDDTY reader knows this is par for the course.
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD. Especially when it's a doctor try
THIS BURNING SENSATION IN YOUR STROMACH: Is it the surgeon’s cigarett
More than two out of every 100 hospital patients will suffer a serious reaction to a drug, new research has revealed. They are also twice as likely to die as a result. This new statistic, prepared ...
Your chances of suffering a serious reaction to a drug while in hospital stand at around 6.5 per cent; worse, 42 per cent of serious reactions are caused by staff error. ...
Your chances of dying in hospital, or suffering some injury while there, stand at around 16 per cent. Half this risk is due to doctor or hospital error which means that 8 per cent of hospital pati ...
In WDDTY vol 5 no 4, , we reported that a third of people in Britain are given the wrong blood for transfusion. ...
