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 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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