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Our Flawed Health Care System Hurts Kids Too

  • January 20, 2005

One of the most popular articles on my site in recent years has been the multi-part series on the sometimes fatal reach of our flawed health care system. Findings of a new study by researchers at nearby Northwestern University offer a crystal-clear and disturbing picture of that ominous trend: Nearly 70,000 children hospitalized in the United States experience an adverse event each year and at least 60 percent of these errors may be PREVENTABLE. Specifically, these adverse events are...