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Study finds medical mistakes made on 10 percent of patients in hospitals. Free lawsuit review.
A report out of Victoria, Australia has estimated that medical mistakes are made on ten percent of people admitted to the state's public hospitals, according to ABC News on May 28, 2008.
The report found 135,000 public hospital patients were subjected to medical mistakes in the last year.
It also estimated that hospital errors had cost the state more than half a billion dollars every year.
All too often, such medical errors become nightmares for patients, who must suffer the consequences of a health care practitioner's mistake.
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