I write what it takes to us - whether-we are sick or well to find and make good use of health care today.
At the end of September I was in the hospital for surgery, to a tumour in my stomach to entfernen.Unten one in a series of five comments about my experience since then.
"You have from this hospital - it is a dangerous place" any of my doctor called friends: If you came to me during my recent visit stay after surgery for stomach cancer.
Jeez!I know! Before my surgery, I was more busy than the operation itself by way of medical errors or cause pain could. what happens if you take out my kidney instead of my stomach?Or leave a sponge in there? Or over hydrate drown me so I? what happens if one of my many night deployment console taking shot donors me with MRSA infected?
The human imagination has miraculous capacity, especially if true stories of damage fueled have experienced people due to medical errors.I read just the IOM report to err is human: building a safer health system; I am horrified by the medical errors experienced by Sue Sheridan and impressed the awareness about the dangers face because of carelessness and lack of system-level controls consumers advancing patient safety leadership and Diane Pinakiewicz's at the national patient safety Foundation, patients.
But for all my well-informed fear and the warnings of the risk of my doctor friends during my recent hospital stay, I was in no condition to be vigilant about my care.I was too sick. Not to mention the risk, especially if repeatedly reminded of it, but also by the aftermath of anaesthesia and pain medication to actually follow the actions of the many health professionals, bumped me day and night man, a permanent presence during the day, confused to krank.Mein was vigilant but often I was on my own: in the operating room during the hours that scans spent always different and overnight stay.
And so I spent the seven days on torture, worried about the dangers that lurked in and on the hands of individual doctors and friendly nurse aide.
The real objective of achieving the public about medical errors and the terrible state of patient safety in hospitals U.S. inform what is?
It is based on us to choose the hospital that we use on hospital performance reports? this is an optimistic goal to date.The primary impact these ratings seems asked hospitals, certain clinical services to improve evaluated are not to shape patient choices between the different institutions.
Are these public education efforts against medical errors sparks an attempt a citizen? Hmm.If the climate public in the pre-election is any indication, competition for our outrage is quite stiff, and most of us more experience - are focused on the implementation of our clinic also if it negative - behind us.
The aim of ensuring that we are vigilant is while we at the hospital are? Yes, should our love watching for us while we are hospitalized, although many of us have the person power in our lives to mount a 24 hour defense.As a patient who was sometimes from my hyper-alert-man didn't but often, the news about the possibility of damage caused by my care was me erschrocken.Sie my dreams permeated and helped a scary mistrust of any staff person entered my room.
Would I know more about the risks of medical errors?For a moment.If there is a risk, I would like to protect myself as best as I can.I strongly support the work of dedicated volunteers across the country to educate ourselves about you.
But I am also aware on this shift in responsibility, this additional task which must take patients and families to ensure that we by our care I am profitieren.Und worried that this yet another example how, is "Patient centeredness" and "Autonomy" in the name of the "choice", we are thoroughly informed about the risks, while most of us have little experience, judgement or ability effectively to be our healthcare system, to reduce these.
Jessie Gruman, PhD, is the founder and President of the Washington, DC-based Center for Advancing Health .you is the author of the aftershock: what to do if you or someone you love a devastating diagnosis diagnosed.
November 2, 2010 |Permalink"I am also aware on this shift in responsibility, this additional task which must take patients and families to ensure that we by our care I am profitieren.Und worried that this yet another example how, is"Patient centeredness"and"Autonomy"in the name of the"choice", we are thoroughly informed about the risks, while most of us have little experience, judgement or ability effectively to be our healthcare system, to reduce these."
Amen.Jedes system of improving health care quality and safety expected sick people as "Enforcement" is by definition no serious System.Es is like a disaster of preparedness plan, Mrs. Smith's kindergarten class of radiation decontamination setzt.Es is a joke.
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