Good thing there are pedantic health nerds around to let everyone know that there's a layer of complexity beyond initial definitions - great work!
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It's funny because the paper itself includes things like under-treatment and missed diagnoses (i.e. failure to intervene) as major contributors, but people regularly interpret it as "medical interventions are killing people!".
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On 6/28/21 Makary was on MN public radio with a health-policy professor from Tuck b-school to discuss surge fear-mongering He said a surge couldn't happen among adults b/c 80-90% were immune and he claimed kids faced only flu-like risks See minutes 3-6https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2021/06/25/covid-cases-are-down-but-so-are-vaccinations-leading-to-fears-about-another-surge …
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He gave Mississippi as an example where a surge wouldn't likely happen because half the population had already been infected. Here's how that prediction panned out:pic.twitter.com/eh0xkoT51X
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Gideon, I love you man.
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Meta-error piled on meta-error.
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Just curious - on what basis do you rate the claim a "myth"? That's a strong word. That word makes it sound like patient injury due to adverse events doesn't happen. It does. I don't think that's what you mean, right?
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How many deaths do you think are caused by medical errors per year?
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