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83The Importance Of Keeping A Medical Diary For Your Child.
Ask any concerned parent and they'll tell you, that a large portion of good parenting requires becoming a staunch health-care advocate for their children. Logically, this no doubt begins with keeping...
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71HOW SAFE ARE YOU IN AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL?
HOW SAFE ARE YOU IN AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL? By Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. Are you afraid of flying? Do you know anyone who is afraid of flying? Fearful or not, you have probably heard that flying...
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69Medicine's Dark Ages are Here
My former medical colleagues were in denial. This week I attended a lecture on medical errors at a local hospital where I had practiced neurosurgery until two years ago when I retired. My main hobby since...
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73What Are The Patients’ Rights ? Don't Become Guinea Pigs
The Pharmacy Act was formed in 1948 to regulate the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs of inferior quality (substandard) and harmful for public health. It also regulates the profession of...
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62Caring for the elderly and avoiding medication errors
Anyone caring for the elderly understands the importance of keeping good medication records to ensure that no dangerous medication accidents occur. The Federal Food and Drug Administration states: A...
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52Nurse Malpractice: A Growing Concern
There have been a number of reports over the last decade of medical errors in the United States every year. According to the Institute of Medicine, approximately 98,000 deaths occur because of medical...
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60Physician Malpractice
Physicians are trusted by their patients so it is a physician’s responsibility to make sure their patient is safe while in their care. A patient’s safety is so important because any type of negligence on the physician’s part can have long lasting consequences for the patient and they physician can be sued for physician malpractice. There are thousands of injuries that occur because of negligence by physicians and physician malpractice is becoming more and more common.
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76Protect Yourself from Medical Errors
No one likes to think medical errors actually happen, but sadly, they can and they do. Healthcare organizations do much to protect their patients - patient safety is the top on their list of priorities. Multidisciplinary teams of professionals work to plan care and deliver that care to patients, but a vital ingredient to the recipe for safe patient care is still missing. The most central person on any healthcare team is the patient. Patient involvement in care is vital to protecting oneself
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50Health and hospital: how to check your healthcare providers for errors
If you're ever in a hospital then you're at risk for mistakes. You'll be more at risk in the hospital because the hospital is a busy place and nurses are tire and overwhelmed with many patients. If you read...
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57Nurses Malpractice
Over the past 5 years, the number of nurses’ malpractice cases had risen at an alarming rate. Nurses’ malpractice is one of the most serious problems in the medical profession today.Nurses’ malpractice...
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