No, medical mistakes are NOT our "third leading cause of death." The studies that are used to argue that are fatally flawed, conflatong complications and potentially preventable deaths with "medical error" and making ridiculously unjustified extrapolations from small numbers.https://twitter.com/AllenFrancesMD/status/1079742520832061441 …
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Replying to @gorskon @DrJenGunter
Third leading cause of death is overstated but as I almost died from prolonged misdiagnoses, my son was permanently injured by one, and my mom was under-treated for asthma and died, it does exist. I don’t think my family’s issues would have been counted in any study.
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Sure there are alt-med crackpots, but the financial incentives are to understate mistakes & deaths. And this ignores indirect mistakes that go undetected w/o follow up (e.g., mis-diagnoses). Thus, critique is mostly laughable. #'s probably higher. W/O good data we won't know.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Mark Hoofnagle
Funny, but I never mentioned alt med crackpots. In any case, I tend to like to quote @MarkHoofnagle on this site and echo his challenge to tell me what a global trigger tool is.
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