hospitals

Dr. Marty Makary, surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, says if medical error were a disease, it would be the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S. Dangerous doctors, unnecessary procedures, surgical slips and other medical mistakes injure or kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Meanwhile, hospitals and doctors are not required to make their patient-outcome statistics public.

When is it possible to get hospital-level treatment…at home?  A professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins has developed a model of care that allows doctors to visit patients in their homes—as opposed to treating them in the hospital.  It’s called, no suprise, “Hospital at Home.”