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Overdose Of Technology Life

Bob Wachter | Backchannel | 30th March 2015
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The shift to computerised information systems has simplified hospital management and reduced the quantity of errors in health records, but it also creates opportunities for new and more spectacular mistakes. Here is how a child in a San Francisco hospital received 38½-times the intended dose of a routine antibiotic. “This is a huge dose. Oh my God, did you <em>give</em> this dose?” “Oh my God. I did.” (2,400 words)

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