Hospitals Worse than Home for Cancer Survival
Most of us don’t want to die in the hospital. But most think that we’ll live longer by staying in the hospital. Not the case for terminal cancer patients. Then there are hospital mistakes and infections.
Tagged: medical errors
Doctor: Medical Mistakes Are Killing a Jumbo Jet Full of People Per Day
Cancer surgeon and medical safety expert has confirmed the extent and causes of medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals, characterizing the massive level of deaths as equivalent to a jumbo jet full of passengers crashing to their death every day.
Hospital Chain Caught Over-Admitting Patients and Over-Billing Medicare
An investigation by CBS’ 60 Minutes has exposed one of the nation’s largest hospital chains pressuring their staff of doctors to admit patients into the hospital to meet quotas, and a former FBI agent says the chain committed medicare fraud….
