Hospitals have long used color-coded bracelets as shorthand to communicate patients’ needs to doctors and nurses. For instance, a purple bracelet might indicate that a terminally ill patient does not wish to be resuscitated in the event of heart failure. Now there is a movement to standardize bracelets, preventing confusion when a health care worker….
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The Biggest Risks You Face in the Hospital
Forbes Magazine has an informative article on the frequency of hospitals making mistakes while caring for patients, pointing out that 1.5 million Americans fall victim to such errors every single year. Some of these errors occur through sheer carelessness: for example, 100,000 people a year die from “superbugs,” bacteria that are resistant to available antibiotics…..
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