Medical Failure

Good afternoon everyone.

My name is Keita Tajima .

Today Iím going to talk about medical failure .

I'm interested in this topic because these days this has became a very serious problem in Japan . The amount of incidents is increasing .

I want to find out the reason why this happens .

I'm going to cover three points .

First I'll tell you what kinds of medical failures there are .

Secondly I'll tell you the number of people who were harmed .

Finally I'll tell you what I think we must do to protect our selves .

First I'll tell you the types of Medical failure .

There are two types of Medical failure .

One is the type that the doctor causes . This often happens during operations . When this happens , most of the doctors try to hide what they did . Most of the failures are hidden by the doctors . The doctors fabricate the medical certificates and they tell the family of the patient that "we couldn't do anything".

Also it happens when the doctor misdiagnoses patient's condition during the examination . And if this happens it is very dangerous to the patient . The patient might lose his or her life .

The next type is the medical failure caused by nurses .

This often happens when the patients are hospitalized . There ís a case that a nurse made a mistake when she tried to inject a liquid medicine but she injected the liquid medicine of another patient . There's another case of a mistake of by a nurse, in this case when giving a drip to the patient , as in the case of the injection the nurse made a mistake when putting in the liquid medicine . In this case it is hard to hide the failure , because if we check the patients blood we can find out what the problem was .

I thought what might be the causes of these failures, and thought that the main problem is the lack of responsibility and concentration of people who are responsible for people's lives.

These days I see a lot of news that is broadcasting cases of medical failure, so secondly, let's see how many medical failures are happening .

We have no way to know the exact number , but I researched the number of the medical failure which was brought into the law courts.

Malpractice cases are increasing . In 1990 the number of the cases was 1255 but 10 yeas later , the number of cases increased to 1886 ,and itís still increasing . As I said this is the number which is known , there are many more hidden cases .

A day will come that you must go to the hospital , finally let's think what we can do to protect our selves .

The most important thing is to know what kind of medical treatment you are receiving . ask the doctor or nurse and it's also important to take a note of what they said . You should require explanation before you get any kind of treatment . If a doctor doesn't explain to you , you should change your hospital .

To summarize , this research shows that the case of medical failure are increasing and the main reason is the lack of responsibility and concentration of the doctor .

There's no way to decrease the number of cases except if the doctors have more responsibility per patient . so we have to protect our own lives .

Recently this problem is not just in Japan , we should think more seriously about this problem and try to find a way to decrease the damage .

Thank you for listening .

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