What Doctors Don't Tell YouHOSPITALS: Are we sure they're places where people go to get better?
Buried away in a British Medical Journal column quaintly entitled called "Education & Debate", giving the impression of a nice place for gentlemen to chew over the great medical issues of the day, ...
This is not the first time the government has rushed through a vaccination programme in response to a threatened epidemic. In 1976, the American government, warned by scientists that an epidemic ...
WATCH OUT: Here comes the man in the white coat
MEDICAL ERRORS: Now here's an idea. . .
If you land in hospital, demand a consultant, or failing that, a pass out the door. ...
As much as 10 per cent of patients entering hospital will experience preventable "adverse events", according to a study of two UK hospitals. ...
A 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.
