Annotated Bibliography: Medical errors are a serious problem in the United States. All of the articles that I have read prove that. Over 98,000 people die every year from medical errors; that's a pretty sad fact to face.Doctors and nurses should pay more attention to what they are doing so none of these deaths even happen. Why do we just let these medical errors happen right under our noses? Why don't we speak up and do something about it? These are very important questions that we people need to know and we need to know now.

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 In this article, The Cancer Cure Foundation says that over 225,000 people die every year due to medical errors making it the number three killer. Over 2,000 deaths from unnecessary surgery, 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals, 80,000 deaths from infections in hospitals, and 106,000 deaths from non-error adverse effects of medications.More people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway accidents,breast cancer, and AIDS put together. Cancer Cure Foundation also states that if fatal reaction were added to medical errors it would be an extra 100,000 deaths would be added to the total every year.They also state that 60% of drug advertisements in medical journal violated FDA guidelines, yet the FDA did nothing about these violations. There are over 700,000 physicians in the U.S. and accidental deaths caused by physicians equals up to be 120,000 people a year.

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 Chris Jerry talks about losing his two year old daughter due to medical errors. When she was a year and a half old she was diagnosed with a yolk sac tumor in her abdomen. That is when her chemotherapy treatment started. Jerry stated that his daughter was on the mends and completely healthy before her chemotherapy treatment was even over. She was a completly happy toddler and no one thought that anything would go wrong. The nurses wanted to start her on a last round of chemotherapy to make sure that the cancer was completely gone.It was Sunday, February 26th,2006 that her last chemotherapy treatment therapy was administered. That afternoon, Emily woke up from her nap feeling groggy which was so unnatural for her and complained that her head hurt. Then she started profusely vomiting and then she went completely limp. The next day she was found dead on life support. All of this was caused by an overdose of sodium chloride in her chemotherapy IV bag due to a nurse not rinsing out the IV bag before it ws administered. None of the nurses at that hospital even had any training.

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Pauline W. Chen states that patients can learn a lot from their doctors in a 15-minute visit. She claims that a 15-minute doctor visit can be very informational and very helpful to the patients. She says that the visits build strong bonds between the doctor and the patients. The information that a doctor gives during those 15 minutes is more helpful to the patients than the doctor just giving them their medication.