There is no doubt that some patients die as a result of these transfers.
Many times, they lost that battle, and I saw patients die - while waiting to be rescued.
In animals, as we've seen in SARS, some coronavirus patients die while others make a full recovery.
Some 100, 000 patients die each year because of medical errors, and 100, 000 get infections while in the hospital.
Some 60% of all lung cancer patients die within a year of diagnosis, and 85% die within five years.
He believed that if he was acquitted, prosecutors could no longer come after him for helping terminally-ill patients die.
In the U.S., more than 63, 000 patients die every year from hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to at least one antibiotic.
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Without a valve replacement operation, half of these patients die within two years, yet many are too weak to have one.
Yet doctors are not questioned when patients die or are left handicapped.
The waiting list for donor kidneys stretches to 85, 000 in the U.S., and 4, 000 patients die each year as a result of the organ shortage.
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Perhaps as many as 2% of patients die during or soon after surgery, according to a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Even with antibiotic treatment, at least 10% of patients die with another 10 to 20% left with permanent problems, such as mental retardation, deafness or epilepsy.
Ten thousand patients die each year from hospital acquired infections.
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An average of three patients die every day in the UK while waiting to receive an organ and more than 10, 000 people are currently in need of a transplant, figures reveal.
In hospitals, some 100, 000 patients die each year from preventable deaths, many a result of infections caused by failure of doctors and nurses to wash their hands before touching a patient.
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Sir David's appearance before MPs comes a month after the publication of the final report of the public inquiry into the scandal, which saw hundreds of patients die after neglect and abuse from staff.
Sixty percent of myeloma patients die within five years, but Giusti beat the odds, living for a decade and a half through multiple rounds of drug therapy and a bone marrow transplant from her twin sister.
In contrast, research by Joanne Lynn, director of the Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, has indicated that patient preferences, disease and family situation have a relatively small effect on the conditions in which patients die.
While techniques have improved considerably in the past 20 years, the bariatric option is still a major procedure in which as many as two out of every 100 patients die on the operating table or soon after the surgery.
And the report in the Sunday Mirror, more than 16, 000 patients die every year from infections picked up in Britain's filthy hospitals and then it's enunciated in the piece that it's 5, 500 outright and another 11, 000 where it's contributed to the death of these people, are those figures true?
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One in 20 hospitalized patients will die because of misdiagnosis, studies cited in the book show.
Telling the doctors, if their patients will die, they will kill doctor also.
Its study also rated the trusts as higher than average for the number of patients who die after treatment there.
However, at this stage there is no firm proof that depression actually causes cancer patients to die earlier than they otherwise would.
Some 100, 000 U.S. patients also die each year from medical errors, but we keep doctors and nurses around for the simple reason that, as a society, we're better off with them than without them.
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