MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE | (888) 392-LAWS (5297) | Hospital

In a recent article in USA Today, "If a 747 jetliner crashed every day, killing all 500 people aboard, there would be a national uproar over aviation safety and an all-out mobilization to fix the problem."

However, "in the nation's hospitals...about the same number of people die on average every day from medical 'adverse events,' many of them preventable errors, such as infections or incorrect medications. Where's the outrage?"

USA Today goes on to recommend the expanded use of medical checklists, greater transparency to allow patients to "evaluate their local hospitals," and use of financial incentives that would prevent hospitals from profiting from failure.

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Medical Malpractice | Fact or Fiction? | Doctor negligence

According to The Medical Malpractice Myth, by Tom Baker, Director of the Insurance Law Center at University of Connecticut, his book provides research to dispute these claims with facts.  The book provides research proving the following:

• Medical malpractice is an epidemic that causes thousands of deaths a year
• Medical malpractice suits are rare, and are very rarely frivolous
• Malpractice insurance premiums aren't impossibly high
• Rising insurance costs are not closely related to litigation
• Doctors are not leaving their practices

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1 Million Medicare Patients Experience Medical Errors <> Medical Negligence

Nearly one million patient safety incidents occurred among Medicare patients in 2009. This figure almost matches what happened in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008.

According to HealthGrades, an independent healthcare ratings organization, errors cost the federal Medicare program nearly $8.9 billion and resulted in 96,402 potentially preventable deaths from 2006 through 2008. Medicare patients who experienced one or more of the 15 patient safety events had approximately a one-in-10 chance of dying as a result of an event.

Patients at hospitals in the top 5 percent experienced 43 percent fewer patient safety incidents, on average, compared to poorly performing hospitals. If all hospitals performed at this level, 218,572 patient safety incidents and 22,590 deaths could potentially have been avoided, saving $2.0 billion from 2006 through 2008.

TO READ A FULL COPY OF THE REPORT CLICK ON THE LINK:

http://www.healthgrades.com/research

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PUT PATIENTS FIRST - 98,000 reasons why - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Accordiing to the Institute of Medicine, 98,000 people die every year from preventable medical errors - and this number doesn't include those seriously injured.  This is the sixth leading cause of death in America, equivalent to two 737's crashing every day.

Trial attorneys see first-hand the effects medical errors have on patients and their families.  The best way to have fewer medical malpractice cases is to reduce the number of medical errors.  If less people need to seek legal recourse, that means patients are getting safer.  Patients that are safer also means lower costs to the health care system. 

Everyone can support this.

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