Erros na medicina

• Hospitals Are Killing Us

  by Joseph Mercola
• Medical errors kill the equivalent of four jumbo jets’ worth of passengers every week, but the death toll is being largely ignored
• It’s estimated that up to 30 percent of all medical procedures, tests and medications may be unnecessary – at a cost of at least $210 billion a year (plus the untold cost of emotional suffering and related complications and even death – which are impossible to put numbers on)
• Urgent reforms are needed to make medical care safer, and simple steps, like installing cameras in hospitals and making hospital performance / error data public, could have a dramatic effect on patient safety
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