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US leads way in medical errors: study
Patients in the United States reported higher rates of medical errors and more disorganized doctor visits and out-of-pocket costs than people in Canada, Britain and three other developed countries, according to a survey released on Thursday.
Thirty-four percent of U.S. patients received wrong medication, improper treatment or incorrect or delayed test results during the last two years, the Commonwealth Fund found.
Thirty percent of Canadian patients reported similar medical errors, followed by 27 percent of those in Australia, 25 percent in New Zealand, 23 percent in Germany and 22 percent in Britain, the health care foundation said.
"Driven up by relatively high medication and lab or test errors, at 34 percent, the spread between the United States and the countries with the lowest error rates was wide," Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of Commonwealth Fund, wrote in the journal Health Affairs, which published the study on its Web site.
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Patients in the United States reported the highest rate of disorganized care at doctor's offices -- 33 percent -- followed by Germany with 26 percent, Canada with 24 percent and New Zealand with 21 percent. Patients in Britain and Australia reported 19 percent.
U.S. patients also stood out for shouldering more medical expenses than those in the other countries. More than half said they did not take their medicines or see a doctor because of costs.
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Thirty percent of Canadian patients reported similar medical errors, followed by 27 percent of those in Australia, 25 percent in New Zealand, 23 percent in Germany and 22 percent in Britain, the health care foundation said.
"Driven up by relatively high medication and lab or test errors, at 34 percent, the spread between the United States and the countries with the lowest error rates was wide," Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of Commonwealth Fund, wrote in the journal Health Affairs, which published the study on its Web site.
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Patients in the United States reported the highest rate of disorganized care at doctor's offices -- 33 percent -- followed by Germany with 26 percent, Canada with 24 percent and New Zealand with 21 percent. Patients in Britain and Australia reported 19 percent.
U.S. patients also stood out for shouldering more medical expenses than those in the other countries. More than half said they did not take their medicines or see a doctor because of costs.
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In both cases, doctors have wheedled tens of thousands of dollars out of these people. The lymphoma case is now dealing with permanent painful injury from the "treatment," while she felt 100% before it. No "remission" of course. The "brain cancer" (good name for him, too) will be getting $2000 PET scans every six months for the indefinite future. Also no change whatsoever in almost four years in what is probably just an anatomical abnormality -- without a biopsy and armed ONLY with scans how can a doctor be positive about this case?
My point is that they DON'T CARE that they don't know. They don't need a biopsy to SHOW THEM THE FUCKING MONEY they're about to make. Cases like this are their bread and butter, the sort of thing they're just trolling for when they screen new cases. Maybe they hadn't seen a bonafide cancer for several weeks and meanwhile the big convention's coming up. Those Vegas hookers -- not the stripper flotsam but the really gorgeous ones -- they wanna see some SCRATCH, baby!
I have seen enough in the past five years to totally convince me that medecine in these United States has become ANTI-ethical, just so many vampires feeding on fear, using it to separate people from huge amounts of money. This is especially true in gerontology, where euthenasia would be the most caring thing for the patients AND the families in about half the cases, especially the degenerative neurological cases. Once they're past a certain point, any other "solution" becomes simply inhuman. But then see you don't get to keep sucking $50,000/annum out of each of them. The shareholders wouldn't like that.
And what if you don't have any money for them to separate you from? Why they just fucking let you die, silly!
Rampant greed is a truly hideous thing, but the day of reckoning will come