Pain Shot Takes the Life of Denver Businesswoman
According to the Rocky Mountain News, Leslie Fishbein, owner of Kacey Fine Furniture, had a massive heart attack after receiving "an injection to relieve pain" from her private physician.
The 1999 study, "To Err is Human", found that one person out of every 100 admitted to a hospital would die due to a medical mistake. This makes healthcare the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. There were 33 million admissions in 1999; you do the math.
The study also admits that most medical care occurs outside of the hospital and that preventable deaths were hard to track.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org) has been working on finding and eliminating the root causes of preventable deaths in over 3,000 U.S. hospitals. Many protocols, some as simple as giving a heart attack victim an aspirin at arrival, are saving lives.
Isn't it time to extend that healthcare prescription to the non-hospital providers?
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