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Originally Posted by anti

i learned something weird at work, here in canada, 4 times as many people die from medical error than car crashes.

No kidding. It has fuck all to do with first or third world country status - and everything to do with human error.

I'm sure shit like this happens EVERYWHERE - it may not be in a hospital, and it may not result in someones death - but human beings fuck up. Period. It's hardly a problem confined to "The Americas".[/quote:142c0]

Pretty fucked up error when you're refusing to help a dieing patient. I can understand clerical errors and medication/dosage mistakes, surgeical/anesthetic errors - but refusing to help someone thats bleeding to death on the floor is plain fucked-up....Of course its not confined to the americas - But I wouldnt expect something like that to happen in the richest country in the world.