Hospital care in San Diego California
I now live in the nations most beautiful city, San Diego, in the state California, which is often thought of as an enlighten state. Well recently there was an article in our local newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, that made my heart drop. The state is fining a mumber of hospitals a total sum of $500,000 for medical errors some of which cost a patient his life. After reading them and asking god to explain how this could happen, I sat down and tried to figure out what is going on. There are so many to prevent errors, that these things should not have happened. One hospital had a person teaching the use of a dangerous drug who was not qualified and whos license had been revoked. Where was the person who was assigned to check the credentials of this nurse? Next there was a death from broken equipment. Where again was the person whos job it was to check out the equipment? I can personally speak for nurses who checked equipment and reporting it to the person responsible for seeing that it was fixed and having nothing done. One example was a machine that was life saving but would cost the hospital a lot of money to replace. It left us praying that we would not need it night after night. I can remember checking it and making out incident reports that this machine was broken and needed to be fixed or replaced. These error happen because some one is falling asleep at the switch. But sometimes it is the cost cutting that the times demand to keep the doors open. Who pays for these error? The patients do! The same patients who put their lives in our hands to keep them safe.