In my 30+ years as a contract artist I have provided services to a multitude of different industries which, more often than not, operate with an extremely high-efficiency. Errors are typically not tolerated for long, especially in the film, theme park and toy industries, where everything is on a rushed schedule. Other than government, I have never seen as many blunders committed daily as I experienced in hospitals. I’m not sure anyone outside of government or hospitals would stay in business long with such inefficiency. To illustrate what the iatrogenic rate would compare to when applied to other businesses, I refer to a paper published by Dr. Lucian L. Leape in his 1994 JAMA paper, “Error In Medicine”. Leape calculated that the error rate in hospitals would translate to:
- Two unsafe plane landings at O’Hare airport per day
- 16,000 pieces of lost mail by the U.S. Postal Service per hour
- 32,000 bank checks deducted from the wrong accounts every hour
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In part one of this series, I illustrated just how common that injuries and death are from colonoscopies, which is far greater than the doctors and the media have led you to believe. Yet, those in the medical industry and media often like to claim that colonoscopies have saved thousands of lives, so the benefits…
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The overuse of the procedure known as colonoscopies as a prophylactic for colon cancer, has not only become quite a fad in recent decades, but also a multimillion dollar industry. Every year, over 14 million perfectly healthy individuals age 50 and up, submit themselves to this invasive procedure in the hope of receiving protection from…
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I had originally planned to simply write a rant on the many common, avoidable and dangerous mistakes I have been witness to and experienced in modern hospitals. Unfortunately, the errors are so numerous that I have decided to create a new category entitled “Medical Mayhem”, where I will write a series of posts broken down…
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The meat most often associated with baseball is that highly processed tube filled with meat by-products and cereal, better known as hotdogs. But, there may be a greater connection between sports and fresh meat not so often correlated. I am speaking of the ability to project missile weapons, in an overhand motion, with deadly…
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In 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act was being debated by the U.S. Congress, which lengthened the amount of years before a copyrighted material would enter into the public domain. The law would extend the life of a copyright for works of a corporate nature from 70 years to 95 years! The law was known…
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