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| Thread ID: 95380 | 2008-12-03 23:41:00 | Arrogant, Abusive and Disruptive and a Doctor! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 725679 | 2008-12-03 23:41:00 | I guess House is a good guy only on the tube (www.nytimes.com)(NZ= choob). Recent studies suggest that such behavior contributes to medical mistakes, preventable complications and even death. “It is the health care equivalent of road rage,” said Dr. Peter B. Angood, chief patient safety officer at the Joint Commission, the nation’s leading independent hospital accreditation agency. A survey of health care workers at 102 nonprofit hospitals from 2004 to 2007 found that 67 percent of respondents said they thought there was a link between disruptive behavior and medical mistakes, and 18 percent said they knew of a mistake that occurred because of an obnoxious doctor. (The author was Dr. Alan Rosenstein, medical director for the West Coast region of VHA Inc., an alliance of nonprofit hospitals.) |
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| 725680 | 2008-12-04 04:39:00 | Good to see someone else here reads the NY Times website a lot too :thumbs: | beeswax34 (63) | ||
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