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Carol Diemert, a nursing practice specialist, and Carrie Mortrud, a governmental affairs and public policy specialist with the Minnesota Nurses Association, write in a Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/27) commentary, “Inside the walls of Twin Cities acute care hospitals, all is not as healthy as the public relations flacks would have you believe,” and “their own consultants have issued a report that substantiates the internal turmoil nurses describe.” They argue that “hospitals aren’t as safe as they claim because they collect incomplete data, allowing them to be opaque about the realities nurses witness.” Diemert and Mortrud say that “hospitals…need to be regulated regarding appropriate staffing,” and conclude that the current system “operates on the backs of nurses’ professional ethics, valuing profit over care, seriously challenging every nurse’s core value of caring for patients in a safe environment.”
These sentiments are shared by nurses and health-care providers throughout the country. Until our medical system puts patients over profits, medical errors will continue to kill and severely injure hundreds of thousands of people each year. The deaths, alone, caused by medical errors amount to nearly 100,000, according to the Institute of Medicine. This trend must end.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
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