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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Allen Frances‏ @AllenFrancesMD 31 Dec 2018

      Allen Frances Retweeted To Err Is Human  👨‍⚕️ 🏥 👩‍⚕️

      2500 years ago, Hippocrates launched modern medicine with stern injunction: "First Do No Harm". Now: US leads the world in fancy medical research, but medical mistakes are our 3rd leading cause of death. Understanding diseases isn't so useful when we keep killing the patients.https://twitter.com/ToErrIsHumanDoc/status/1079434749721104384 …

      Allen Frances added,

      To Err Is Human  👨‍⚕️ 🏥 👩‍⚕️ @ToErrIsHumanDoc
      "We invest tens of billions to find cures for disease, but barely a fraction of that to find cures for one of the world's biggest killers -- medical errors. This important documentary conveys just how big a mistake that is. It also shows how we can do better. - @Atul_Gawande pic.twitter.com/XlnVMCiVJA
      19 replies 56 retweets 119 likes
    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Dec 2018
      Replying to @AllenFrancesMD @pash22

      Medical errors are NOT our third leading cause of death. The research claiming that is highly flawed.

      4 replies 1 retweet 44 likes
    3. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 31 Dec 2018
      Replying to @gorskon @AllenFrancesMD @pash22

      Citing the “third leading cause” myth just shows you’re unfamiliar with the literature, and you prefer to cite a flashy, innumerate statistic to get attention. Prove me wrong. Without google, tell me about global trigger tools.

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    4. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 31 Dec 2018
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon and

      They’ve made a whole movie around it now. This myth will persist like “we only use 10% if our brains.” It’s just too sexy not to repeat ad nauseum. But that would mean fully half of deaths in hospitals are preventable and that error has increased 5-10x since “to err.”

      3 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 31 Dec 2018
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @AllenFrancesMD @pash22

      Believing this myth is a sign of total innumeracy. There are ~750K in-hospital deaths per year in the US. To believe that medical error is the third leading cause of death, you have to believe that somewhere between 250-400K (33-53%) of ALL hospital deaths are due to error.

      4 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
    6. Allen Frances‏ @AllenFrancesMD 1 Jan 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle @pash22

      Yes, there's controversy how to apportion deaths between avoidable medical mistake vs inherent procedure risk. But #''s large/worrying either way esp if count outpatient errors & iatrogenic drug ODs. Do you really doubt mistakes are common/avoidable/under-reported/not corrected?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 1 Jan 2019
      Replying to @AllenFrancesMD @gorskon @pash22

      What nonsense. The figure is wrong. Estimates of error that are carefully done are a twentieth this size. Worse it’s used by cranks and ideologues to dismiss medical advice, as we have seen the NRA do most recently. You don’t help fix the problem by mismeasuring it.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Jan 2019
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @AllenFrancesMD @pash22

      Indeed. No one—I mean, NO ONE—is arguing that medical errors aren't a major problem. Billions are being spent to study them and reduce their frequency. Massively exaggerating their frequency does not help in reducing their occurrence.

      12:13 PM - 1 Jan 2019
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