OUTSOURCING BECOMING A HEALTH THREAT Here's why....sending treatment instructions to India for secretarial translation turning into a bizarre life-threatening nightmare. Reports claim
Indian transcription service 'putting lives at risk' because letters from hospital doctors are being sent to secretaries in India to be typed and returned to GPs with mistakes, it was claimed today.
In one example, the drug Lansoprazole, used to treat stomach ulcers, was transcribed as the popular holiday resort Lanzarote, in another case, a "below knee amputation" became "baloney amputation".
