>Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that “medical errors” in hospitals and other health-care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.
>Nightmare stories of nurses giving potent drugs meant for one patient to another This literally can't happen in a regular hospital. All patients and medications have bar codes which must be scanned before giving them to the patient. After the patient and medication is scanned, the nurse must tick each box on their computer to show that it was given to the right person. The nurse isn't even allowed access to medications without checking them out from the pharmacy and returning them.
Julian White
At least our families are not billed for it.
Christian Allen
We don't have to pay for the privilege though.
William Jenkins
People die in hospitals? When the fuck did this start happening?
Jeremiah Smith
Wait shit, I understated the numbers >According to the report, 165,135 people suffered fatal harm while in NHS care, suggesting that staff may not have time to look after the sick properly.
Austin Gomez
They were pre-billed using these things called taxes that Sup Forums seems to have no concept of.
Jeremiah Lopez
>Deaths include immediate deaths in hospitals, deaths weeks in advance, or deaths years down the line as a result of treatment So basically, it doesn't have to actually kill them directly, just be vaguely related in order for it to be counted among "medical errors". Which makes the data nonsense.
Brandon Watson
Thanks, Obama. You've really done wonders to reform health care in this country.
Nathan Cooper
So basically, Brits are almost 3 times as likely to die in a hospital than in the US when adjusted for population? Christ, that's insane.
The funny thing is that it's a well known fact that the NHS treats its elderly patients far worse than they do here.
James Robinson
>americans think Britain has a good NHS
YOU CANT MAKE THIS UP
Levi Cruz
Its a well known fact that most countries without NHS are 3rd world countries
Xavier Jackson
>the american healthcare is shit t. brit >the british healthcare is 3 times worse t. american :DDD
Julian Reyes
>USA spends two times more money per capita on healthcare >they live 2 years less on average
HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU CANT MAKE THIS UP
Austin Ortiz
Delet this THE NHS is atrocious though, there are countries with much better systems like Germany and Switzerland that are basically Obamacare but actually good.
William Thompson
you mean they spend twice as much as a state, right? sure that the individual costs (premiums, excess etc) are way higher than that.
Angel Lee
lol what a fucking embarrassing country
Noah Barnes
In the netherlands we dont have NHS. We did just 3 things:
1. People have to take healthcare insurance, they can choose themself how they get it 2. Insurance companies must talk to hospitals every year on the pricing and if it can get cheaper if they dont do it or if it is too expensive the government will do it. 3. Companies who make medication compete every year on who will make a certain type of medication for the whole dutch population. The most effective and the cheapest wins.
Ian Ramirez
I'm not sure we can be proud of ourselves either
Kevin Nguyen
No they spend twice as much per person.
Carson Torres
Also, healthcare insurances cannot decline requests of clients nor can they ask more money because of personal conditions.
Levi Flores
>incompetent professors
Hey can you find me a french university on here? How many? How many American ones?
imagine living in one of the most powerful, successful, and accomplished nations in the world and then having a country like argentina try insulting your quality of life
naturally you're going to point out that they likely live in a slum and that your life is infinitely better
there are 7 countries here who can actually talk bad about our quality of life, the UK isn't one of them, not by a mile
Kevin Brown
Huh, I was replying to the other user, and by saying that I was not sure that we could be proud of ourselves, I actually went your way. However, even if I'm not proud of our education system as a whole, I have to concede such universities rankings make no sense. For instance, they take the volume into account, so most French "great schools" (ENS, X, Mines, Centrale, etc...) , that have pretty low numbers of students, rank pretty low although they are, admittedly, very good (google ENS)
Ayden Butler
damn i wasn't even trying to trigger and i still did
Jose Gomez
>people die in hospitals Wow Can we please do something about this
Carson James
That sounds like a good system, and what Obamacare was supposed to be had it not been gutted.
Speaking from experience, a big problem with the NHS is that the hospital staff are overworked and severely underpaid, which is a huge problem if you're planning on staying for more than a day or two in the hospital. The elderly have it particularly bad in comparison to other countries.
Nathan Wilson
>university
enjoy your shitty education
Julian Powell
>gets an honest response
>lol triggered!!!11
Ryder Campbell
...you don't understand what the word means, it seems