April 2012

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Medical Errors

FACT – In the past 12 years, the FDA has received more than 95,000 reports of medication errors. These are only the mediation errors that are both discovered AND reported. FACT – One in seven Medicare patients in hospitals experience a medical error. FACT – There is an approximate 98,000 deaths to due medical errors

Take the Pledge to be an Informed Healthcare Consumer!

Are you part of the generation that recalls the small local family doctors’ office, where sometimes the same doctor would take care of one generation through the next?  The doc would know your name, your spouse’s name, and even the sports team your kids played on? Heck – they would even remember why they had