Any film that claims that 440K people per year die from medical error in the US can be safely dismissed because such estimates reveal a shocking innumeracy, There are only roughly 2.7 million total deaths/yr in the US, roughly 750K of them in hospitals. 1/ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/11/09/benjamin-mazer-are-medical-errors-a-huge-problem-thats-simple-to-fix/ …
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None of this is to say that medical errors aren't a significant problem. They are, and we in the medical profession should do as much as we can to reduce them as close to zero as is feasible. 4/
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That being said, remember that these estimates saying that medical errors are the third leading cause of death are utter bullshit and virtually always more of a tool of people whose agenda is to demonize conventional medicine than reliable estimates. 5/5
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