The Advertiser recently reported that there had been
"almost 80,000 incidents ranging from catastrophic failures
causing deaths to serious mistakes with medications, dangerous
falls and near misses" within South Australian hospitals in
the last 12 months.
The report focused on four examples of medical negligence that
have affected a significant number of South Australians. These
included "the cochlear implant scandal," "the
chemotherapy debacle," "the BreastScreen fiasco" and
"the false-positive prostate cancer mistake."
Whilst these are examples of many individuals being affected by
widespread and systematic failures, we cannot forget those who fall
victim to one off incidents of medical negligence.
