Thursday, May 29, 2014

Medication Mistakes

Have you ever heard a doctor say "this drug is 95% effective" or "this procedure works 97%" of the time? The good news is that the drug probably has a higher rate of success if administered properly and the procedure probably has a higher rate of success if done correctly. Here is the problem, we know that medical malpractice happens both in the performance of a procedure and the administration of drugs (especially in a hospital). So those percentages of success include failures that were not caused because the drug does not work and were not caused because the procedure is not a good one, rather they are caused because someone screwed up.

So here is the problem: if you are in a hospital which is not run well, if you don't take medication as you should, or if a doctor who is not at the top of his/her game is operating on you then the percentage that applies to you for any particular medication or procedure may be a good deal lower.

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