The Most Shocking Mistakes Hospitals Don’t Want You to Know About

The Most Shocking Mistakes Hospitals Don’t Want You to Know About

They include foreign objects left in the body, air embolisms and giving patients the wrong blood type

Is it somehow unfair that the public knows that one airline – Malaysia Air – flew two of the planes in our most recent commercial aviation tragedies? After all, the exact cause of either catastrophe isn’t yet known, and it’s not clear that Malaysia Air was at fault in either. The airline flies roughly 91,000 flights per year safely; no Malaysian Air flight had been involved in a fatal accident since 1995. Is it really fair to name the airline?

I suspect your reaction – almost everyone’s reaction — to this line of thought is roughly, “Fair? Who cares about fair? Of course we have a right to know.” Perhaps only a lobbyist for the American Hospital Association (AHA) could have any sympathy for suppressing the name of a company that has a terrible accident. The AHA has just successfully employed a similar “fairness” argument in convincing the Obama Administration to eliminate government disclosure of the worst medical mistakes committed by hospitals.

As of this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has removed data on many “never events” from its public website, Hospital Compare.  To read more, click here

Insomnia in Older Adults

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Insomnia in Older Adults

Tips for Sleeping Better as You Age

As we age we often experience normal changes in our sleeping patterns. We may become sleepier earlier, wake up earlier, and enjoy less deep sleep. However, disturbed sleep, waking up tired every day, and other symptoms of insomnia are not a normal part of aging. Sleep is just as important to our physical and emotional health in our senior years as it was when we were younger. These tips can help you overcome age-related sleep problems and get a good night’s rest.

The importance of sleep for older adults

No matter what your age, sleeping well is essential to your physical health and emotional well-being. For seniors, a good night’s sleep is especially important because it helps improve concentration and memory formation, allows your body to repair any cell damage that occurred during the day, and refreshes your immune system, which in turn helps to prevent disease. 

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How To Improve Athletic Performance & Repair Injuries

How To Improve Athletic Performance & Repair Injuries 

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There are several purposes for this information:

• To show you how to improve performance while doing your favorite sports activity.
• To educate you on how to avoid sports injuries.
• To show you how to repair injuries you might already have.

There are a variety of factors with improving performance and in preventing sports injuries.  The most important of these are:

• Stress
• Flexibility
• Reducing fat

Stress may have the biggest effect of all on athletic performance, injury prevention, recovery from injury, and on your own general health.

Flexibility is defined as the degree of your freedom of movement.  Some persons are more flexible than others, but it is a lack of flexibility that can cause injury and reduce your performance.

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If You Are Asked To Take Medication, Ask These 15 questions First

If You Are Asked To Take Medication

1.      Will this medication cure my problem or simply mask the symptoms?

2.      How does the medication work?

3.      Is there another way than medication to treat my condition?

4.      What will the medication do for me, both good and bad?

5.      What is the most common side-effect?

6.      What other common side-effects do I need to look for?

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