How to survive Christmas in the hospital, if youre unlucky enough to end up there The prospect of medical error is heightened during the holiday season, when hospitals are reduced to a skeleton staff. Overworked doctors are still people. Three years ago on a long weekend, a little boy in hospital died of septicaemia. Victorian coroner Jacinta Heffey ruled that 15-month-old Leroy Scott would have lived were it not for the hospital’s tardiness in delivering antibiotics. The reason for the delay was debate over whether the illness was bacterial or viral. An important complicating factor was the public holiday that impeded the follow up of a positive blood culture, which would ordinarily have prompted urgent remedy. theguardian/commentisfree/2014/dec/18/how-to-survive-christmas-in-the-hospital-if-youre-unlucky-enough-to-end-up-there
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