1. Every year millions of Americans find themselves touched by a medical error. 

每年，数百万美国人发现自己遭遇医疗错误。

2. Many are harmless or easily corrected, but some are serious enough to cause patients' deaths according to a new report.

一份新的报告指出，许多医疗错误是无害或者是容易纠正的，但是，有些则严重得足以引起病人死亡。

3. Researchers from Health Grades Incorporated, a healthcare ratings organization, found that medical errors resulted in more than 200, 380 deaths between 2004 and 2006. The total cost was nearly $ 9 billion. 

健康评级有限公司（一家保健评级组织）的研究人员发现，在2004-2006年，医疗错误造成超过200 380例死亡，总计损失将近90亿美元。

4. The errors included hospital infections, complications from anesthesia, and preventable blood clots. 

这些错误包括医院感染、麻醉引起的并发症以及可预防的血栓。

5. In rare instances, patients had foreign bodies such as sponge, sewn inside them during the surgery. 

在罕见的情况下，病人在手术期间体内缝有像海绵之类的异物。

6. Researchers concluded that medical errors are largely preventable with steps such as electronic medical records kept on computers and thorough cleaning of hospital equipment.

研究人员得出结论：医疗错误大部分是可以通过诸如把电子医疗档案保存在电脑里、彻底清洁医院设备等一些步骤得到预防。

7. You can reduce your chances of becoming a victim by keeping track of all medications to reduce mix-ups and making sure to ask doctors or nurses questions until you are sure you understand what they are doing to you and why.

通过追踪所有用药，来减少药物混用；通过问医生和护士问题，直到你肯定明白他们在对你做些什么和为什么这样做,你就可以减少成为医疗错误受害者的机会。

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