There is a time to have surgery and a time when it is best to avoid it. Statistics show that July is a bad month for surgical malpractice deaths.<\/p>\n
According to The Journal of General Internal Medicine, there is a hike of up to 10 percent of fatalities during that summer month. Why would that be? Turns out that is when new doctors-to-be, also known residents, are starting their training. The definitely should make patients pause about when to schedule surgery.<\/p>\n
To be fair, the figures are not exclusively pointing at surgery as being the main cause of deaths during that month. Instead, there is a potpourri of reasons, including mistakes in prescribing and giving medication, in addition to messing up during a surgical procedure. If you stop to think about this, it should not really come as too much of a surprise. There are close to 100,000 deaths every year as a (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a time to have surgery and a time when it is best to avoid it. Statistics show that July is a bad month for surgical malpractice deaths. According to The Journal of General Internal Medicine, there is a…<\/span><\/p>\n