Hospital Follies Revisited
Michael Cash
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20031003-00000014-yom-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20031004-00001051-mai-soci
Oops! 'Scuse us!
Bryce
situations were there in other countries regarding radiation exposure on a
per capita basis? I wonder if it would compare?
"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
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Michael Cash
<fuk...@takethisout.hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on
going with:
>254 people since 1988? Do we know if that's so bad? How many misdiagnosis
>situations were there in other countries regarding radiation exposure on a
>per capita basis? I wonder if it would compare?
From 1988 to 1999. The machine in use at the time required the
operator to make a calculation of some sort and then enter the result
into the machine. It would appear that one particular guy didn't know
how to do the calculations and fucked up and overradiated that many
people. I don't know that "misdiagnosis" would be the proper term. He
entered into the calculations with the correct info (presumably). He
just came out on the far side of the equal sign with the wrong figure.
They believe that 7 of the 254 suffered some side effects.
The article doesn't really say, but 254 people at a major university
hospital (I used to go to that university ((in the strictest sense of
"go", by the way)) seems like a rather low amount of patient traffic
over an 11 year period. Perhaps there were other technicians working
there who were performing the calculations correctly and doing a fine
job. One would hope so.
Taken on a broad scale such as country-by-country comparisons, maybe
this ain't so bad. But since ONE GUY is responsible for 254 fuckups,
it is quite a serious matter. At least for the people who made use of
the services of that hospital it is.
Bryce
Ryan Ginstrom
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> http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20031003-00000014-yom-soci
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> http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20031004-00001051-mai-soci
Not surprised at all. But just to make sure that the Japanese medical
lobby's side is heard:
1) They didn't cover it up for more than a month, they just needed to be
sure all their facts were straight.
2) They only fucked up a few peoples' health, I'm sure other countries are
just as bad.
3) Do you have any idea how complicated radiology is? No? Then shut the hell
up.
Actually, what is kind of surprising is that it took them 11 years to find
out their error. Just like my graddad always says, hospitals are the most
unhealthy places on the planet. Avoid them if you want to live a long and
healthy life.
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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom