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“Liability = Responsibility”

“OUR medical liability system needs reform. But anyone who thinks that limiting liability would reduce health care costs is fooling himself.”
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“After medical tests, no news might be bad news.”

Brian Williams investigated the negligence of doctors in returning proper medical results. 1 in 14 times doctors fail to share abnormal test results with patients.
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"First, Make No Mistakes"

In the health care debate, there is one thing we can all agree on: the importance of reducing unnecessary deaths in medicine. Medical error causes tens of thousands of deaths each year that could be prevented by known techniques and technologies.
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“At V.A. Hospital, a Rogue Cancer Unit”

The cancer unit at Veterans’ Hospital in Philadelphia, where Dr. Gary D. Kao implanted dozens of radioactive seeds into a patient’s healthy bladder instead of his cancerous prostate, “botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments.”
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Medical Errors Cost U.S. $8.8 Billion, result in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths, according to HealthGrades Study

Patient safety incidents cost the federal Medicare program $8.8
billion and resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths during 2004 through 2006, according to HealthGrades' fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.
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