discussion title:
Have drug errors affected your child?
message #:
7366.2 in response to 7366.1
I have mixed feelings about this article. The title irritates me because it's meant to sensationalize an issue but that's exactly what the media likes to do. I can understand advocacy to promote improvements but not at the expense of villainizing hospital personnel or physicians. The "1 in 15" figure includes adverse drug reactions which is not a drug error so the title of the article is very misleading. Is there room for improvement? Of course. It's a system dependent on a flaw - the human flaw. I think the figure is much greater than 1 in 15 for parents who have caused their own child temporary harm from decisions or errors that they have made.
>>"As many as 100,000 people a year die because of medical mistakes resulting from simple human error."<<
How many of those could be avoided if people took more responsibility for their own health, treated their bodies with more respect, and avoided hospitalization altogether? Obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and other "lifestyle diseases" certainly contribute to this figure.
[climbing down off my soapbox now]
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