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Friday, July 21, 2006

Medication Errors Harming Millions, Report Says

Healthcare (and I use the term loosely) in the US is such a nice, big, fat easy target that I can't resist this one. A new report shows that on average, you can expect a medication error for each day you spend in a hospital. 1.5 million people get bad drugs in US hospitals a year, costing $3.5 billion. Odd how this simultaneously drums up extra business for the hospitals and the drug companies.

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