Healthcare errors plague Americans
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Americans spend double what people in other industrialized countries do on healthcare, but have more trouble seeing doctors and are the victims of more errors, according to a report released Thursday.
The report, published in the journal Health Affairs, was based on a survey of 12,000 adults in the United States, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Patients in the Netherlands struggle the most with paperwork, according to the report, while British and Canadian citizens wait the longest for elective surgery.
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