Another Reason Medical Malpractice Frequently Occurs in Ohio

In Ohio and all around the country, doctors are making more and more mistakes with their patients.  Even more alarming, is that nurses and hospitals are at fault many times.  One of the main reasons for people leaving the hospital worse off than when they arrived is the shortage of nurses in Ohio hospitals.

As the article in the hyperlink above describes, it is logical that hospitals are short of nurses because of the baby boomers, but also, because nearby schools aren't training enough people to become nurses.  Schools, community colleges and four year universities alike, need to increase their enrollment to allow more students to obtain degrees in nursing. 

This needs to be done ASAP.  However, schools must make sure that they are not flooding the market with unqualified individuals.  If that happens, our Ohio hospitals will have plenty of nurses . . . but they will be inadequate.  I don't know what is worse, a lot of bad nurses or too little good nurses.

Medical malpractice can almost be said to be an epidemic. 

Larry