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Culture of Medicine Breeds Secrecy and Non-Admittance of Major Mistakes by Health Care Providers

Posted By St. Louis Personal Injury Attorney on Aug 24, 2011 4:45am PDT

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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a landmark study in the early 2000s called To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The study estimated that "44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error. Even using the lower estimate, medical error is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States — surpassing deaths due to motor vehicle accidents, chronic liver disease, alcohol- and drug-induced causes (combined), and a variety of cancers, including breast, stomach, and prostate. According to a study citing the IOM's seminal report, An Educational Needs Assessment for Improving Patient Safety Results of a National Study of Physicians and Nurses the culture of medicine has been a tolerance to medical errors and a "punitive", rather than "proactive" response to health care providers that report medical errors.

Unfortunately, this is the reality in which patients and loved ones find themselves after a major medical error severely injures or kills them. The skilled medical malpractice attorneys at Meyerkord and Meyerkord, LLC are here to help you if you believe you are the victim of medical malpractice. Our medical malpractice attorneys continue to set the standard for representation of difficult medical malpractice cases. If you have a medical malpractice issue, contact us at (800) 391-4318 to schedule a no-obligation meeting with a medical malpractice attorney.

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