The Institute of Medicine estimates as many as ninety-eight thousand people die from medical mistakes in hospitals each year. One Harvard researcher compares it to having three jumbo jets filled with patients crash every two days.
Harried doctors prescribe the wrong doses of the wrong medications.
Pharmacists, confused by poor handwriting, fill the wrong prescriptions. And while some hospitals have put in computerized systems to catch mistakes, the systems are very expensive. We speak to the inventor of the devise, Dr. Pankaj Merchia. The leading developer and supplier of technical computing software in the world. To listen to archives, you need RealPlayer media plug-in.