Breaking Research For 11-29-99

nd all this time I thought hospitals were where you go to be taken care of and nurtured back to health again. Wrong! As many as 98,000 people a year die unnecessarily because of mistakes made by doctors and nurses in U.S. hospitals. 98,000! Add that to 134,000 deaths that occur from properly dispensed, doctor prescribed, FDA approved medications and you're looking at 232,000 preventable deaths each year. That's enough to fill three and half major football coliseums. And this number doesn't even begin to address the number of debilitating mistakes that happen each year that don't result in death. You know, where they amputate the wrong leg or reconstruct the wrong knee.

It's pretty scary when the medications we take and the doctors and hospitals we go to are the third leading contributor to premature death in this country. Kind of ironic. Keep this in mind next time you are checked into a hospital, visit a doctor, or need a prescription.

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