How To Get the Most Safety From the Medical System
For the best look at what our medical system can do to improve safety in hospitals and
doctors office, see the solutions provided by author and commentator, Michael Townes Watson,
in his new book, America’s Tunnel Vision–How Insurance Companies’ Propaganda Is
Corrupting Medicine and Law
First --require the state medical boards to do something about the worst offenders.
Second–Reduce hospital infections. Require and monitor sanitary air, surfaces and
procedures.
Third–Bring hospitals into the twenty-first century of medical records access and storage,
improving patient welfare and medication safety
Fourth–Mandate and provide a way for hospitals and doctors to acknowledge injuries
due to error and systemize improvements to reduce error.
Fifth–Insurance companies should use their existing database capabilities to analyze
ways to improve safety and lessen the costs
STOP BLAMING PATIENTS FOR HIGH COST OF MEDICAL CARE– When 500
patients are killed each day by hospital error, can’t their families ask why?
The well-connected and politically savvy insurance companies have taken over the
practice of medicine. They now are trying to make you believe that you will be better off if
doctors and hospitals are not responsible for their errors. We have unwittingly allowed
insurance to run our government and take away our rights. This book allows you to see what
is really going on in the halls of power. AUTHOR–Michael Townes Watson–author, teacher,
mediator and lecturer talks about the ways you can protect yourself.
Hospital-acquired infections kill more Americans each year than AIDS, breast cancer, or
automobile accidents
These infections add $16 billion in additional healthcare spending each year
Hospital-acquired infections cause one death in this country every six minutes