'Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks' Category
Medication errors affect 1 in 25 in leading Irish Hospital (or does it?)
[UPDATE]: To carry home the challenges of managing and measuring the quality of information at times, Beaumont Hospital have issued the following press statement regarding the issue mentioned below (this statement is copied from the comment below).
STATEMENT BY BEAUMONT HOSPITAL RE OMBUDSMAN’S REPORT
The Office of the Ombudsman issued a report this morning which highlighted […]“Wrong Site” surgery all too common
Surgeons often operate on the wrong side of the body, sometimes with fatal results. Read the full story here.
Leading Private Hospital ordered to cease Breast cancer Services
The Irish Examiner Newspaper reports today that Barrington’s Hospital, one of the leading private hospitals in the West of Ireland, has been ordered by the Irish Minister for Health to cease all Breast Cancer services on foot of concerns from her Chief Medical Officer and the Health Information & Quality Authority about the
“adequacy of the management and […]TB or not TB (with apologies to Shakespeare)
The Irish Examiner newspaper today carried this story about an American lawyer who was let back into the US despite being red-flagged as a health risk.
It would seem that he had acquired a particularly nasty drug-resistant form of Tuberculosis - a diagnosis which was confirmed in Europe where he was travelling. He was advised not […]Sometimes an IQ Trainwreck just gets you in the …
Over on the website of Information Impact (Larry P. English’s consulting firm) a list of “Publicly exposed IQ Problems” is maintained. Occasionally we like to pop over and see what Larry’s people have spotted in the media that we might have missed.
One that got the (male) administrator of this site right in the *ahem* was […]
