What Your Local Hospital is Hoping You Won’t Discover

Dr. Mercola

7/24/2010

Mainstreet.com offers a few essential facts about hospitals that you should know before you check in:

• Stay Healthy in July

July is the most dangerous month to visit a hospital. That’s the month when students graduate from medical school and start doing residencies at teaching hospitals. Deaths due to hospital medication errors spike by 10 percent in July.

• Hospital Wait Times

Hospitals have terrible wait times, which may actually be endangering patients. Patients who need to be seen within 14 minutes of arriving ended up having to wait more than twice as long.

And now… the rest of the story. …..

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