Hospitals cover up malpractice

02.05.2012                      10.Ijar. 5772                    Tag 25 des Omer

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Hospitals cover up malpractice

An Israeli who gets sick is responsible for his or her own fate – that's the lesson learned from the charges of the state comptroller's report on medical malpractice.

Cases of negligence, incompetence, failure and conflicts of interest occur a lot but are often not investigated, investigated improperly or covered up, the comptroller reported.

For the medical establishment, it means that no lessons are learned from past mistakes and failures keep recurring….