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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I remember reading several years ago that deaths due to medical "mistakes" were on the order of 100k. That number seemed high to me then, and 400k (a 400% increase?) seems silly by comparison.
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