4sight Health July 6, 2022
In a recent blog post, I suggested that we’ve become desensitized to medical mistakes in hospitals that injure or kill patients. My evidence in “Uncomfortably Numb to Patient Harm” was the meager media reaction to a report from HHS’ inspector general’s office that said 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries suffers an adverse event in the hospital. In other words, medical errors injure or kill one out of every four seniors who goes to the hospital. That stat was pretty shocking to me. It was meh to most others.
I ended that post by arguing that public- and private-sector programs to make patient care safer haven’t worked and that we need to get tougher on hospitals, doctors, nurses and others who...
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