Did you read the story about a 30-year old man who died in the Emergency Room reportedly after waiting 8 hours to see a doctor? John Verrier showed up at Saint Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx complaining of a rash. A hospital worker found him dead in the waiting room 8-hours later.

The hospital claims Verrier was checked numerous times but an unidentified employee told the New York Daily news that he was never seen. The employee says his name had been called several times but Verrier did not answer. The unidentified employee also blamed the tragedy on staff cuts at the hospital.

Waiting the in the ER is not unusual according to a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office. That report showed an average wait time to see a physician in the emergency room is more than double the recommended time in some cases.

Research from Press Ganey Associates, a group that works with health care organizations to improve clinical outcomes, finds that in 2009, patients waited on average six hours in emergency rooms. Nearly 400,000 patients waited 24 hours or more.

Verrier allegedly suffered from drug addiction over the years. But his family says he had been clean for a while. Verrier’s brother Charles conveyed something a lot of patients may feel when they visit a hospital or doctor’s office. “You’re just a number no matter where you go. That’s how they treated him, like a number,” said Charles Verrier.

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Medical misdiagnoses are much more common than you might think. Take the woman who died in New York City earlier this year. For two years, she searched for answers to her medical problems. She was told it was asthma when it was really lung cancer. Multiple medial errors and a delayed cancer diagnosis ultimately led to her death. 

A report from the National Center for Policy Analysis found each year 40,500 diagnostic errors in intensive care units lead to death and diagnostic errors affect 10-20% of all medical cases and are more common than prescription or surgical mistakes.  

At SecondOpinions.com it is our mission to help decrease medical errors and unnecessary procedures and surgeries. We believe second opinions save lives and can potentially save the healthcare industry billions of dollars. 

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Imagine being diagnosed with cancer and being told you have to wait more than six weeks to have crucial tests performed. That’s what happened to more than 5,200 cancer patients in the United Kingdom. A watchdog group blames it on the government’s massive reorganization of the health services department in the United Kingdom.

NHS carried out 1.6 million tests in October 2013, a 4 per cent increase compared to the previous year. A Department of Health spokesperson says, “But we are very clear that the vast majority of patients shouldn’t have to wait longer than six weeks for a test and we expect the NHS to take action to reduce these waits.”

People with cancer should not also be faced with unnecessary delays in their care. It’s scenarios like these that support SecondOpinions.com and its goal to provide affordable healthcare in a timely fashion to patients across the world.

At SecondOpinions.com patients simply upload MRI, CT, X-Ray, Mammogram, Ultrasound or Nuclear Medicine scans and our expert specialists and subspecialists study your images and provide you with their advanced second opinion. There are no appointments necessary. No spending hours waiting in a doctor’s office.

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Most of us know in order to succeed we have to fail every now and then. The same goes for doctors who make medical mistakes. But in these cases the consequences can be the difference between life and death.

Dr. Brian Goldman is an emergency room doctor in Canada. He believes doctors need to talk more about their mistakes in order to learn from them. Goldman is a best-selling author and host of CBC Radio’s White Coat.

According to a study conducted 10 years ago, 9,000 to 23,000 Canadians die each year because of medical errors. The numbers are worse in the United States with 40,000 to 80,000 die each year from diagnostic errors, obstetric mistakes or improperly delivering medications.

Goldman believes the numbers can be lowered if doctors were not ashamed to talk about the mistakes or worried about retribution from colleagues. More transparency and discussion about what went wrong can save lives, according to Goldman.

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