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ON MEDICATION ERRORS

This is one is the most scariest information which is known but hardly publicized.

According to US Food and Drug Administration.

A Regulatory Approach

The public took notice in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report, 'To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System.' According to the report, between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths may result each year from medical errors in hospitals alone. And more than 7,000 deaths each year are related to medications.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/MedErrors/

According to www.therubins.com

(7/25/06)- Medication error continue to plague our medical system according to the latest report released by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM). The report, 'Preventing Medication Errors' found that medication errors harm 1.5 million Americans each year at a cost of at least $3.5 billion annually. Several thousand deaths each year are due to medication errors.

About 300,000 people are injured and almost 100,000 are killed each year because of medication errors according to some recent studies.

http://www.therubins.com/geninfo/errors.htm

I think the danger to America is their own people. OUCH0!!! Stop focusing on outside countries when it should be one's own country that should be focused on."