Quality Care Issues

Hospitals can be miraculous places, which their advertising usually promotes for a market share advantage. Rarely does the public learn of wrong site surgeries, medication mistakes, hospital acquired infections, and other serious shortcomings.  This piece recounts the experience of an E.R. physician who was hit by a car in Washington DC and spent four days in a hospital that unfortunately goes unnamed. Which is more typical—the miracle or the muddle? MORE

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