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Doctors behaving badly
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“When I was getting my first ever gyno exam at age 21, I winced at the pain of her inserting the speculum, and she scoffed and said, ‘Oh stop, it’s no bigger than your boyfriend.’” — Nicole, 23, New York, NY
Doctors distracted by electronic devices…
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Do you know what happens during surgery?
Cut…open…correct…sew.
Maybe some background music. Hip if the doctor likes that. Or classical.
Well, not exactly.
You might be surprised. Or horrified to learn the truth.
Tags: critical, dangers, death, distracted doctoring, electronic devices, errors, trust
Wrong diagnosis?
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There are many ways that your medical care can go wrong. All of the phases from diagnosis to treatment can have some type of error.
Studies of error types: An Institute of Medical Report attempted to quantify the types of medical errors that occur in healthcare settings.
One cited study lists causes of errors as follows:
Tags: equipment malfunction, errors, lab results, medical mistakes, medication, misdiagnosis, procedure
At Walgreens and CVS, Complaints of Medication Errors Go Missing
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In Oklahoma, a State Board of Pharmacy released a complaint against a CVS pharmacy regarding a medication error made last year. The board took the rare step of citing the pharmacy in addition to the pharmacist involved in the error.
The Oklahoma board cited inadequate staffing in its investigation of the mistake, which involved a young man who received only one-fourth of his prescribed dose of anticonvulsant medication, according to the complaint.
Tags: anticonvulsants, CVS, errors, head gash, medication mistakes, pharmacies, violent seizures, Walgreen's, wrong dosages
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