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 Medical Errors

 Doctors prescribing habits
 
  • ADVAIR: Business as usual
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    Doctors' prescribing
     
  • DRUG WARS: Making it up as they go
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    Infant death rates
     
  • `KANGAROO CARE' BETTER FOR NEWBORNS
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    Infant deaths
     
  • HRT: It worsens incontinence
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  • Reader's Corner: Gbs (group b strep):
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  • Shaken babies should stir up an exposé
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    Infant mortality rates
     
  • `KANGAROO CARE' BETTER FOR NEWBORNS
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    Invasive procedures
     
  • Angiograms: More often than not, a picture out of focus
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  • Bypass Surgery: Does it stop our natural defense system?
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    Invasive surgery
     
  • Questions and answers: salivary stones
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  • Questions and answers: salivary stones
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    Medical accidents
     
  • Doctors doctor our medical notes
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  • SHORT TAKES
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    Medical advice
     
  • NEWS: Nurses emergency phone line don't agree on advice
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    Medical beliefs
     
  • MEDICAL BELIEFS:: Today's practice is tomorrow's quackery
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  • News: Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure
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  • News: Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure
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    Medical competence
     
  • Doctors need to improve their communication skills
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  • Fracture or sprain? Junior doctors can’t tell you
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  • UPDATES: Keyhole: test for competence
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    Medical competency
     
  • UK docs may be untrained in basic tasks
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  • UPDATES: Dentists: too gas-happy
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    Medical errors
     
  • Doctors are also victims of medical errors
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  • Fatal drug mistakes down to tiredness and ignorance
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  • Going to hospital: And surviving your stay there
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  • Going to hospital: Medical errors
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  • Great Smile
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  • Hospital horrors make me hope I never have to go
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  • Medical Blunders: One in three us patients is a victim of error
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  • News HOSPITAL AUDITS: nearly one million errors each year
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  • News HOSPITAL AUDITS: nearly one million errors each year
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  • NURSE, THE SCREENS: Hospitals are killing too many patients
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  • See you in court, doctor: A step-by-step guide to mounting a medical malpractice suit against your doctor or hospital.
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  • See you in court, doctor: A step-by-step guide to mounting a medical malpractice suit against your doctor or hospital.
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  • So you think you need . . . A blood transfusion
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  • Some doctors have bad aim for bad knees
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  • The patient has our sponge
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  • Trusting the process
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  • US doctors downplay medical errors
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    Medical fascism
     
  • VIEWPOINT: Medical fascism
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    Medical fraud
     
  • UPDATES: Breast cancer findings faked
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  • UPDATES: Breast cancer trial discredited
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  • UPDATES: Fraud during eye trial probed
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  • UPDATES: Heart product fraud admitted
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    Medical incompetence
     
  • Fatal drug mistakes down to tiredness and ignorance
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    Medical lies
     
  • 10 THINGS DOCTORS SAY (AND WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN)
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  • THE TOP 10 MEDICAL MYTHS
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    Medical malpractice
     
  • B6: How low can we safely go?
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  • NEWS: Hospitals are using wrong needles for lumbar punctures
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  • We’ll take the red tape
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  • Why weren’t we told about this acne drug?
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    Medical marketing
     
  • Pharma companies hype illness to sell drugs
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    Medical mindset
     
  • A little light magic
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    Medical misconduct
     
  • CASE STUDY
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  • CASE STUDY: Botched gall bladder op
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  • MAGNESIUM: RESEARCH MISCONDUCT?
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  • SHORT TAKES
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  • THE RAID ON B VITAMINS
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  • UPDATES: Aids discoverer discredited
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  • UPDATES: Doctors to be disciplined
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  • UPDATES: Drug adverts: misleading
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  • UPDATES: Elderly in homes given wrong drug
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  • UPDATES: Growth hormone test halted
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  • UPDATES: Heart product fraud admitted
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  • UPDATES: Infection risk: vaccine needles
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  • UPDATES: Us chemists in drug fraud
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  • UPDATES: Us tests taken without consent
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  • UPDATES: Women rage at medic blunders
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  • VIEWPOINT: Hope: the best medicine
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  • VIEWPOINT: Of errors and ennui
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    Medical misdiagnosis
     
  • TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
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  • UPDATES: Ear ache : jabs for all
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  • WHAT DOCTORS READ: Doctors : on overload
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    Medical misrepresentation
     
  • MERCURY: Californian dentists must display the health risks
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    Medical mistakes
     
  • CASE STUDY: Hospital horror
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  • Fracture or sprain? Junior doctors can’t tell you
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  • HOSPITALS: Are we sure they're places where people go to get better?
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  • MASS VACCINE BLUNDERS
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  • MEDICAL ERRORS: Now here's an idea. . .
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  • NEWS: Adverse events in hospital are common
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  • NEWS: Medical mistakes: doctors say the system's to blame
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  • Seroquel
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  • SHORT TAKES
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  • SHORT TAKES
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  • SHORT TAKES
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  • SHORT TAKES
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  • SHORT TAKES: '
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  • SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD. Especially when it's a doctor try
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  • THIS BURNING SENSATION IN YOUR STROMACH: Is it the surgeon’s cigarett
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  • UPDATES: 1 in 50 react to hospital drugs
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  • UPDATES: Hospital horrors getting worse
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  • UPDATES: Hospitals: 1 in 6 killed or injured
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  • UPDATES: Transfusion errors in hospital labs
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  • VIEWPOINT: A dubious good deed
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  • VIEWPOINT: Caveman meddling
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  • VIEWPOINT: Wrong at a stroke
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  • WATCH OUT: Here comes the man in the white coat
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  • WHAT DOCTORS READ: Doctors : on overload
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    Medical misuse
     
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
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  • SHORT TAKES
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    Medical myths
     
  • THE TOP 10 MEDICAL MYTHS
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    Medical negligence
     
  • A COURT OF LAST RESORT
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  • CASE STUDY
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  • CASE STUDY
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  • COMMENT: Md: a licence for life
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  • COMMENT: For Love of Helenor
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  • DEEP VOODOO
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  • ECZEMA: Rash medicine
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  • Fatal drug mistakes down to tiredness and ignorance
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  • JUST A MINUTE, SURGEON: Ten questions to ask before you submit to surgery, plus a survival guide for your stay in hospital.
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF: Abortion by decree
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  • QUESTION FROM READER
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  • See you in court, doctor: A step-by-step guide to mounting a medical malpractice suit against your doctor or hospital.
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  • See you in court, doctor: A step-by-step guide to mounting a medical malpractice suit against your doctor or hospital.
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  • SHORT TAKES
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  • UPDATES: Diabetes : a damages claim
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  • UPDATES: Hospitals: 1 in 6 killed or injured
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  • UPDATES: Keyhole doc: fatal decision
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  • UPDATES: Mammograms: needless exposure
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  • UPDATES: Us children overdrugged
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  • VIEWPOINT: The right to remain silent
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  • WHAT DOCTORS READ: Cardiacs : gps at fault
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  • WHAT DOCTORS READ: Laparoscopy: complications
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  • WHAT DOCTORS READ: No faith in birth tests
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    Medical overkill
     
  • VIEWPOINT: Nuking the enemy
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