Thursday, May 29, 2014

Profiting from Incompetence

One in five elderly US patients injured by medical care
The injuries included: being given the wrong medication, having an allergic reaction to a medication, or receiving any treatment that led to more complications of an existing medical problem.
"These injuries are caused by the medical care or management rather than any underlying disease," said lead researcher Mary Carter, director of the Gerontology Program at Towson University in Maryland.
About two-thirds of these injuries occurred during outpatient care, rather than in the hospital, the study findings showed.
As I have said before... maybe there should be some disincentive for that?   Like having to treat those problems for free?   How come you guys never suggest that?

Oh, it would  be a huge chunk of your revenue?   Huh.