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Managed care forcing doctors to treat cases beyond their abilities

A report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly 1 out of 4 primary care physicians feel that they are not qualified...
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MDs go on strike, death rate drops

The British Medical Journal reports that on March 9, 2000, doctors in the Israel Medical Association began sanctions to reduce...
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Bad Doctors Not Reported

Reuters Health reports that in a letter to US Attorney John Ashcroft, consumer advocate Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group...
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New law will require hospital errors to be reported

The Baltimore Sun reports that the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality is working on writing regulations that would require hospitals...
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One third of drug errors in elderly are preventable

A report given at an annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics says that one third of all...
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40% of new doctors feel unprepared for job

A study in the British Medical Journal says that 40% of recent medical school graduates felt that their education had inadequately prepared them...
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Parents Not Told Of Errors

The Alternative Health Newsletter reports on November 21, 2000 that the journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood found that...
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21% Of Hand Surgeons Have Operated On Wrong Site

A report in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery says that 21% of 1,050 hand surgeons surveyed said they had operated on the wrong...
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Student doctors not taught to report medical errors

Reuters Health news service reports that a survey presented at a meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine in San Diego...
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Half of all hospital injections are done wrong

The British Medical Journal reports that errors are made in nearly half of all hospital injections...
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Patient Advocate Group: Medication Errors Abound

A report issued by the patient advocate group, Public Citizen Health Research Group points out how common medication errors have become...
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Medical Complications Cause 32,000 Deaths, Cost $9 Billion A Year

A combined study by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Johns Hopkins University reported that medical complications...
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Research Doesn't Support Many Common Medical Tests

The British Medical Journal reports that many of the commonly performed medical diagnostic tests do not have high quality evidence...
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Data On Risk, Quality Of Care Generally Unavailable

The British Medical Journal highlights a study that found a serious lack of published information regarding the risk of various...
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U.S. Medical "System" Creates Errors

At an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting in Philadelphia, Dr. Lucian Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health in Cambridge...
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Doctor’s Neckties Can Spread Infection

Reuters Health news service reports that a presentation made at a General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology finds that...
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Hospitals Violate Law, Do Not Report Medical Errors

The New York Times reported that an audit by the states comptroller found that hospitals in New York routinely violate...
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1/3 Of Americans May Have Experienced Medical Errors

A study reported by WebMD Medical News says that a third of Americans say that they or a family member have experienced...
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