Recently researchers studies 50 patient progress notes. They found that they could not read 16% of the words. the misunderstanding that this causes can mean that a patient is given the wrong blood , or that a surgeon amputates the wrong limb. Fetal errors. of thousands of mistakes are mead in hospital around the world , and a lot of them are because of bad handwriting or abbreviations which nobody understands.
at charing cross hospital, staff carry computer around
non-medical people who work in hospital offices
written instructions on what drug to give a patient
made somebody pay money as a punishment
a court
to cut off part of the body