http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/08/21/medical-errors-part-four.aspxSome 45 percent of specialists reported that a medical error had occurred in their practice in the past six months, according to a national survey. Researchers sent out the brief, anonymous survey to 2,500 members of the American Academy of OtolaryngologyenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/08/21/medical-errors-part-four.aspx#34358Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:54:10 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:34358Nurse Wahl<p>As a Nurse I worked in a community hospital in Santa Cruz, California where I could write a book on the daily errors that occurred in the operating department. I was reprimanded for informing my boss that the anesthesiologist that frequently slept through surgery left the sevoflurane running in the room when there was not a patient, surgeon anyone in the room for twenty minutes. Same hospital where another anesthesiologist was found drug overdosed in the bathroom on fentanyl. Same hospital that recently opertated on the WRONG PERSON yes, not wrong side or site but person! The common statement made by doctors and nurses at that hospital about operating on the wrong person &quot;It could happen to anyone&quot; I said:&quot;No, that's why I left small community hospital with low standards and now work at Stanford&quot; It matters on the culture of the community of each hospital that increases and turns the other way with errors</p> <img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34358" width="1" height="1">