Medical Mistakes

It is shocking to know that every year 98000 patients die from medical errors that can be prevented(Kohn, L. T., Corrigan, J. M., & Donaldson, M. S. (Eds.), 2000). Medical errors are not a new issue in our healthcare system; these have been around for a long time. Hospitals have been trying to improve quality care and patients safety by implementing different strategies to prevent and reduce medical errors for past thirty years. Medical errors are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in America (Allen, 2013). In addition medical errors are costing our healthcare system an estimated $735 billion to $980 billion (Andel, Davidow, Hollander, & Moreno, 2012).

Causes of major medical errors have many different factors and influences. This includes why the patient was being seen to allow such an error, what medical guideline or guideline’s that where not followed that caused the error, what could have been done by staff members to prevent the error, etc. When errors take place, repercussions follow such as the cost incurred to the patient or patient family members, fines the medical worker must pay, and most importantly what is the patients status/prognosis. Not all patients prevail and make it through such awful medical errors.

Cognitive errors of omission and commission are the most common types of medical errors that will happen in the workplace environment.

In this essay “When Doctors Make Mistakes” Atul Gawande (1999) talks about the day when he made a mistake as a doctor. He writes everything that he did step by step to show what he did wrong. He talks about how tried to open her airway and couldn’t so he had attending come help him. He also talks about the patient barely surviving and how the attending had to tell the family that the patient was alive but in a critical condition. He then goes on and talks about other mistakes physicians have made but admits that “all doctors make terrible mistakes” (p.385).

Medical errors in the United States has been an intense topic of interest for politicians, researchers, and the general public alike for a number of years now. Concern about medical errors grew in the US following the release of “To ERR is Human: Building a safer Health System” report issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). This apprehension most noticeably started during the Clinton administration; IOM released their groundbreaking report in 1999 during the Clinton administration. Results shed light on the reality of diagnostic errors and raised awareness to the public. The alarm created by IOM catapulted the matter to President Bill Clinton. According to Janet Brooks (2009) (a Canadian journalist who has completed

In Dr. Goldman’s article “Doctors Make Mistakes: A Commentary on Medical Errors” (TedTalk) he asserts the doctors are reluctant to admit making errors. Doctors are human so they make errors but they are reluctant to admit them. Dr. Goldman states that a culture of denial and shame exists in the medical community. He further asserts that the culture is pervasive within the medical profession and that it makes doctors afraid to come forward.

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According to Media Health Leaders, medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States. This statistic shows there is an intense problem in not only our country, but around the world, and there needs to be a change. These changes should include requiring all doctors to complete a checklist of requirements before any surgery, calling for every hospital to use brainwave monitors during surgery, and encouraging communication between doctors and both their colleagues and patients.

This article talks about human errors in dispensing drugs. Adverse drug reactions have reportedly claimed more than 100,000 lives in America. Pharmacy mistakes may have contributed to the deaths as a result. Studies uncovered that these human errors were mainly caused by distractions and interruptions. Other contributing factors include long working hours, heavy workloads, complicated procedures, misinterpretation and work stress. Pharmacists were generally asked to handle a huge amount of tasks within a short span of time. The tasks include reviewing patient’s profile, verifying with patient for any drug allergies, dispensing drugs and counseling for new drugs. Studies have also shown that over the years, the demands for prescriptive drugs

According to the article Thousands of Mistakes Made in Surgery Every Year by Jennifer Warner from WebMD Health News, more than 4,000 mistakes occur in surgery every year that could have been prevented. These mistakes cost approximately $1.3 million dollars in medical malpractice payouts. This is a more than preventable act. Researchers frequently refer to these events as “never events” because they should simply never occur. Never events include incidents such as performing the wrong procedure or even leaving a medical sponge in the patient after surgery. Between the years of 1990 and 2010, never events occurred about 10,000 time in the United States. Each week a sponge or towel is left inside

Imagine a situation when you have a health problem and need a specialist for medical help but instead, they become the cause of the biggest health problem in your life. A question, will you ever trust the health organization again? Probably no. Healthcare facilities should create a sense of trustworthiness and safety. Patients trust their doctors to always make the right decisions instead of them without a second thought. We must remember that doctors are humans and tend to make mistakes. Usually, patients don't ask questions and everything that doctors will say they accept as the only truth. But Medical mistakes are a really serious issue in the USA. Although not always life threatening but can cause very serious health conditions. Medical mistakes are the third-largest killer of Americans right after heart disease and cancer and these mistakes result in about 400,000 deaths and cost $1 trillion annually in the United States (Zikhani, 2016).

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