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Software Glitch Put Veterans at Risk of Drug Overdoses at VA HospitalsBy Mike Adams, January 15, 2009 | Key concepts: VA hospitals, Veterans and Patient records When a software glitch garbled patient records across more than 50 veterans hospitals, causing some veterans to receive the wrong doses of potentially dangerous medications (like blood thinners), VA hospital administrators did what every bureaucrat does: They lied about it and told no one.It was all caused by a grand software glitch in the VA hospital computer system. When doctors and nurses pulled up patient records, the computer screens advised prescriptions, surgeries and medical procedures for other patients instead! Amazingly, no one was killed by the mix-up. (Or, at least, no one we yet know about. Then again, dead patients don't talk...) One of the great benefits of modern medicine is that the drugs are so universally useless that even when prescription medications are given to the wrong people, nobody seems to notice. Everybody already expects to feel worse on the drugs anyway, so overdoses or incorrect prescriptions seem to be no worse than the "right" prescriptions. In fact, you could probably just take all the pharmaceuticals in the hospital, randomly remix them, feed 'em to patients and get approximately the same results we see today. But if you really wanted to help patients, you should throw out all the drugs and start feeding the veterans some superfood smoothies. Then they wouldn't need all those toxic meds in the first place. Click to read: |
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