CRIMINALIZING BAD HEALTH OUTCOMES?!?
Hospitals could be held criminally liable if hospitalized patients catch methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Britain’s new health secretary said yesterday, according to the London Telegraph:
Asked on ITV’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme if that meant hospitals could be held criminally liable if patients contracted bugs such as MRSA [Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt] said: “That’s what we are looking at.”
I assume prosecutors would have to prove negligence, but the Telegraph article doesn’t say anything about that. Over to you, Walter…
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