ONTARIO HOSPITALS ADMIT TO 36 SEVERE ADVERSE EFFECTS

Ten of the adverse effects were fatal, twenty-six patients had their health severely jeopardized. The real question isn't the number reported, it's the actual number of medication errors per year, per hospital and per region. I've had two close relatives hospitalized in the last five years. Both of them were on the receiving end of medication errors but neither of those would have made a list of severe harm or death. They were lucky, no thanks to the idiots in charge of the medication. Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record has this story "Medication errors led to severe harm or death in 36 Ontario patients in one year, report says". Plus I just recalled a friend died a few years back after a heart attack that saw him get to Grand River Hospital, given blood thinners and then bleed to death on the operating table. There is an old saying that doctors bury their mistakes. I wonder exactly who determines when an error has or has not taken place?