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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While I'm at it, here's an excellent deconstruction of the whole "third leading cause of death" myth about medical errors. The actual number of deaths due to medical error is AT LEAST an order of magnitude smaller than the scare numbers. http://www.medicalevidenceblog.com/2018/12/doctors-and-medical-errors-kill-more.html …
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