6/30/08 - Data on number of patients injured in serious medical 'never events'
"About 100 patients suffer injuries each month in California because of preventable medical errors, the Los Angeles Times reports."
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6/30/08 - Serious patient errors at California hospitals disclosed in state filings
"About 100 Californians a month are being harmed in adverse events considered preventable. A lawmaker proposes banning reimbursements to hospitals for some types of injuries."
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6/27/08 - WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors
"Since the 1930s, airplane pilots have run through checklists before taking off. Now the World Health Organization wants surgeons all over the globe to use them, too."
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6/26/08 - Are Perks Compromising MD Ethics?
"Conflict Of Interest Issues Raised By Drug Company Freebies Given To Doctors"
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6/22/08 - A Script for Safety
"Veronica Beasley called to her husband Bill to phone the paramedics. The Westminster woman was wracked with stomach pain and a “creepy” feeling up the back of her neck that she said she knew was anaphylactic shock."
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6/19/08 - Errors cause 98,000 hospital deaths from Cynthia McCormick

"A state police trooper currently stationed at the South Yarmouth barracks, John McCormack is accustomed to working within a chain of command and respecting authority. So when his 1-year-old daughter, Taylor, ended up at Children's Hospital Boston, he let the doctors take charge. It's a decision, McCormack says, he lived to regret."
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“Medication errors injure at least 1.5 million Americans annually”
~ Source: “Preventing Medication Errors,” Institute of Medicine, July 2006

"We need to reduce costs and medical errors with better information technology"
~ President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 23, 2007

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