A new study published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates that about six percent of the approximately 130 million people (about one in 18 individuals) who seek medical care in emergency departments in the United States each year are misdiagnosed.

This translates into about 7.4 million misdiagnosis errors that cause unnecessary harm to some 2.6 million patients and leave an additional 370,000 patients permanently disabled or dead.

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https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/12/millions-of-patients-harmed-by-medical-misdiagnosis-in-u-s-emergency-departments/

Why Hospitals Still Make Serious Medical Errors—and How They Are Trying to Reduce Them

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-medical-errors-how-they-reduce-them-edfa257f

"...even as pharmacy errors mount across the US, pharmaceutical lobbyists are pushing to keep reports of errors hidden from officials and the public."

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https://nypost.com/2023/09/05/deadly-pharmacy-errors-are-mounting-a-danger-to-the-public/

#Adderall ODs and errors mean it’s time to rethink kids’ medical issues

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https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/adderall-ods-and-errors-mean-its-time-to-rethink-kid-medical-issues/

Diagnostic errors are common in seriously ill hospitalized adults

"Of the reviewed cases, 550 patients, or 23%, experienced a diagnostic error. The errors caused temporary or permanent injury or death in 436 of those patients. The researchers concluded that diagnostic error was a contributing factor in 121 of the deaths."

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https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030638

"When talking to people who’ve been misdiagnosed, “one of the things we hear over and over is, ‘The doctor didn’t listen to me.’"

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/medical-mistakes-more-likely-women-123000870.html

Prescription for Secrecy: Most #pharmacies not required to report #medicationerrors

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https://tinyurl.com/mb3d93uf

#Doctors discovered the mistake after two rounds of chemo, leaving her permanently injured. She never had #cancer.

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/mum-underwent-chemo-for-terminal-cancer-only-to-discover-she-wasn-t-sick/ar-BB1lkEaP

Medical errors like these harm 1.2 million Americans and result in the death of an estimated 251,000 patients every year.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13690511/medication-remove-wrong-organs-deadly-mistakes-doctors-make.html