Preventing Medical Mistakes

It is estimated that each year up to 98,000 people lose their lives to preventable medical mistakes. The cost to our nation’s healthcare system is estimated to be $2 billion dollars each year. Despite several attempts to solve this problem, the Consumer’s Union reported that we are no better off today than we were 10 years ago. In the past 10 years a million lives have been lost and billions of dollars have been spent because of medical mistakes.

Fortunately, there are three things that you can do to prevent a medical mistake.

These are:

1) Ask Questions,

2) Know Your Numbers, and

3) Keep a Personal Health System.