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ABC Radio: Hospital complications on the rise

We go there to get better, but fresh evidence suggests patients suffer complications in hospital more commonly than widely assumed.

The think tank, the Grattan Institute, has found people who stay in hospital overnight have a one in four risk of some kind of a complication.

TGB partner Mal Byrne, an experienced medical negligence lawyer, spoke to the ABC’s Lexi Metherell for the AM program.

Listen to the full report here.