Tag: medical mistake

04 May 2008

Why EMR Excite Me: The Trouble with Normal

Apparently, it doesn’t get funding:
Why Medicine Should Care Less About ‘Sick,’ More About ‘Normal’
If you had died 50 years ago, your body would have stood a pretty good chance of serving science. In the 1960s, autopsy rates at US hospitals exceeded 50 percent. Pathologists weren’t necessarily looking for what killed people — they were taking [...]

13 Nov 2007

New case of HIV transmitted via Organ Donation

Looks like University of Chicago and Northwestern Hospitals are involved too.
Story :
CHICAGO — An organ donor infected four transplant patients with the AIDS virus in what a donor group says is the first such transmission in the U.S. in at least 13 years.
The transplants occurred in January at three Chicago hospitals. The patients infected with [...]