The Associated Press said "On Oct.1, Medicare will stop payng hospitals for the care they must provide to treat eight preventable injuries: 1) Urinary-tract infections from using catheters. 2) Bloodstream infections from using catheters. 3) Falls. 4) Bedsores, or pressure ulcers. 5) Objects left in a patient during surgury. 6) Blood incompatibility, giving a dangerously wrong blood type. 7) Infection after heart surgery called mediastinitis. 8) Air embolism, an air bubble in a blood vessel."
As i was reading this, I was in shock with #5, is this really that common? I have heard of it happening 2 times but for medicare to bring that up, OMG how good of doctor is the person cutting you open and forgetting tools inside of you.
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I have seen some xrays...scary stuff.
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