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Australian hospital accidentally declares 200 patients dead - chairman - 08-14-2014
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian hospital apologized on Thursday after mistakenly sending out death notices for 200 of its - very much alive - patients.
Austin Hospital, in Australia's second most populous city of Melbourne, erroneously killed off the patients when it faxed death notices to their family doctors.
The notices were the result of an inadvertent change to the templates the hospital sends to doctors once a patient has been discharged, operator Austin Health said in a statement.
"We apologized unreservedly to affected clinics who, for the most part, were very understanding about the error," it said.
Patient care had not been affected, the company stressed.
The Australian Medical Association said the error was unacceptable and potentially distressing to family doctors, while an opposition lawmaker said it was symptomatic of an overworked health system.
Re: Australian hospital accidentally declares 200 patients dead - villagebelle - 08-14-2014
If they died, do they have to pay their medical bills?
Re: Australian hospital accidentally declares 200 patients dead - apalaze - 08-14-2014
Wow, this will happen from time to time. It is easy to make mistakes like this though thankfully they don't happen all that often. Aside from that I have to say, Australia is a dangerous place, lovely, yet dangerous. Would visit again if I had the chance.
Re: Australian hospital accidentally declares 200 patients dead - SeanM - 08-14-2014
who "accidentally" declares 200 PEOPLE DEAD?! such incompetence though...