Healthcare Update Satellite — 06-26-2013

See more HealthCare Updates at my other blog at http://drwhitecoat.com. UK Accident and Emergency Department criticized for multiple failures after going into “crisis” mode from January through March due to a surge in patient volumes. Of course, all the investigators go and pick through the hospital’s policies four times in April after things have calmed down, rather than going and trying to address the problems in real time while they’re happening. Want to see me faint? Give me a story about an inspector going to a hospital during a crisis, and making a specific real-time recommendation on how to improve the crisis. None of the vague doublespeak about doing something to “make sure a proper system was in place to identify and manage any risk to the health and safety of people using the hospital.” Inspectors like this seem to have no problems criticizing other peoples’ solutions – especially after the fact – but they’re hard-pressed to come up with their own innovative solutions during a crisis. The MERS virus is the latest deadly virus to hit the circuit. The reported mortality rate is 65%! Outbreaks in one case were spread from one dialysis patient to seven others in the same hospital. One vector was hypothesized to be contaminated dates from Saudi Arabia. Next month’s celebration of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia will be a big test of the infectivity of the MERS virus. The US isn’t the only country experiencing difficulty managing psychiatr...
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