Medical Errors Kill 15,000 Patients a Month

  Thirteen [13] percent of Medicare patients in the U.S. experience an adverse event each month in American hospitals, and some 15,000 of them die as a result according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General

The report points out that 44 percent of adverse incidents occurring in hospitals are avoidable. And all-together, these adverse events are costing Medicare more than $300 million a MONTH.

Kevin K. Golladay, regional inspector general for evaluation and inspections with OIG thinks hospitals need to have greater incentives to reduce errors and adverse events, and the OIG report suggests that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could perhaps create this incentive by denying payment for conditions acquired while in the hospital setting.

Editorial Comment: (from Chiro.org, edited)

The unfortunate truth is that Medicare balks at the prospect of paying chiropractors for all the services they are trained (and licensed) to provide.

This costs Medicare $300 million a MONTH from injuring patients (or 3.6 Billion per year).  How many are for conditions that could have been safely and successfully treated with Chiropractic care?  According to the most in-depth review article written on the topic, the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year, at a cost of $282 billion dollars.

• That’s 2147 people dying per DAY

• That’s two 9-11 events happening every three days…forever.