Hospital Blunders Result in Almost 12,000 Preventable Deaths in Hospitals Every Year': Junior Doctors Badly Supervised, says Study

Nearly 12,000 patients die needlessly in hospital every year due to blunders by staff, researchers warn.

They say that doctors and nurses routinely misdiagnose illnesses, fail to treat patients quickly enough or give them the wrong dose of drug. And many of the errors happen because junior doctors are not properly supervised by senior colleagues, say the academics .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk