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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The Top Ten Most Common Medical Errors
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Rutherford, NJ – December 22 2010 – CoverMD's Senior Contributing
Editor Dr. Barry Bialek looks at the top ten most common medical errors in the US.
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From technical medical errors to improper medication dosages these errors can injure patients as well as cost lives and have a direct impact on
medical malpractice insurance rates. Dr. Bialek lists the ten most common
medical errors and looks at how avoidable most of these are.
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From the case of five year old Billy who lost his life on the operating table due to
a technical medical error to Marvin a sixty-six year old male injured due to a lack
of adequate precautions, these scenarios represent the ten most common types of
medical error that kill or injure patients. When it comes to medical errors the lesson is that many of the most common ones could have been prevented.
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