Good doctors vs. bad hospitals: the battle for patient care
The public and the politicians may be missing the boat when they do not question the role of hospitals in the present health care debate. The hospitals have hung themselves out to be the “good guys” who hire and keep good doctors and promote the practice of good medicine. They portray themselves as the pillars of communities.
But in 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that 98,000 deaths occurred in hospitals …
