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| A Death in the Hospital |
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After 6 days being unwillingly made a human model for training purposes, our son Seth Speken died on August 27, 1993. His death was at the premier Ivy League teaching hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York. This Web Site is dedicated to Seth. It is also dedicated to the other 133 people who died that week directly as a result of medical negligence in hospitals in New York State. The Harvard Medical Practice Study, documented in The New England Journal of Medicine, (February 7, 1991), found strong evidence of 6895 deaths during the year 1984 in New York hospitals due to negligent medical care alone. One can only imagine what the statistics are now. The Harvard Medical Practice Study identifies "Physician inexperience" as being probably the largest single cause of medical negligence. In The Girl Who Died Twice (Delcort Press, 1995), Natalie Robbins describes a common practice in teaching hospitals called the Closed Order Book. It is the blatant permission to leave health care decisions involving human life in the hands of green students who receive minimal supervision and monitoring if they receive any at all... http://www.med-malpractice.com/
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