World News Tonight (ABC) (special KATU edition) - 1999-11-29
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[0:00] How to find a man by the millennium
[0:02] tomorrow at 9:00.
[0:07] On World News tonight this Monday,
[0:09] thousands of people die in the hospital
[0:11] because mistakes were made. What can be
[0:13] done?
[0:14] So many people angry about free trade in
[0:17] the world economy, thousands of them
[0:19] choose the streets of Seattle as their
[0:21] platform.
[0:23] A major change in cancer research
[0:25] targeting cancer cells without damaging
[0:27] the rest of the body. And single,
[0:29] successful, and seriously in need of
[0:32] females. Some of the men in Silicon
[0:35] Valley.
[0:44] From ABC News world headquarters in New
[0:47] York.
[0:48] This is World News tonight with Peter
[0:50] Jennings. Good evening. Welcome to a
[0:52] special Northwest edition of World News
[0:54] tonight here on Channel 2. Big story in
[0:56] your neck of the woods today, we'll get
[0:57] to that in just a moment. We're going to
[0:59] begin with a leading cause of death in
[1:01] America, medical mistakes. According to
[1:04] the National Academy of Sciences, tens
[1:06] of thousands of Americans are dying
[1:08] simply because mistakes are made in
[1:10] hospitals by doctors, and nurses, and
[1:14] pharmacists. The Academy estimates today
[1:16] that more than 44,000
[1:18] people, and perhaps as many as 120,000,
[1:21] die every year because people make
[1:23] mistakes. Here's ABC's Jack Smith.
[1:27] Americans are dying in alarming numbers,
[1:29] according to the report, because of
[1:31] simple avoidable medical mistakes,
[1:33] mainly in the nation's hospitals. Errors
[1:35] like patients getting the wrong
[1:37] medication, and poor supervision of the
[1:39] critically ill. Deaths from medical
[1:41] errors are one of the leading causes of
[1:43] death in the United State