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- Data suggests patients in veterans' hospitals receive inadequate osteoporosis evaluation, treatment.
- Many painkiller prescription errors caused by similar looking, sounding monikers.
- Patients with dementia often subjected to aggressive treatments, transfers.
- Patients in hospitals where nurses work long hours may be more likely to die of pneumonia, heart attack.
- Many at high heart risk don't get enough drugs
Medical Malpractice
200,000 deaths as a result of preventable medical errors every year
Every year approximately 200,000 Americans die from preventable medical mistakes and infections in hospitals as the means to fight these needless deaths are ignored at many hospitals. Looks like we need more "defensive" medicine, not less!
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