Martine Ehrenclou’s mother was put into the hospital for an acute pancreatitis. The doctors were used to this simple standard procedure to help the older lady. This simple procedure turned fatal when Martine’s mother died months later due to complications such as Pneumonia and a staph infection. The inspector general of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services released a report which stated that they found out that 80 percent of hospital errors go unreported by the workers.
They looked at data from the hospitalized Medicare patients that showed majority of medical errors in hospitals do not change the policies or procedures of the staff. Some of the errors were wrong medications, extreme bedsores, infection and even death. They say that some hospital staff may not recognize “what constitutes patient harm”.
How do hospital staff not know what can harm patients? They go through plenty of schooling to know better than that. If they don’t even know what can harm their patient how did they even earn their degree yet alone pass their classes? How are we the patients supposed to be able to trust nurses or Doctors when they don’t even know what can harm us? Patients are not test dummies. They are real people that trust these “professionals” to make us better and even save our lives. We depend on these people. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/hospital-staff-report-hospital-errors/story?id=15308019
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