"The episode has upset the doctors and their colleagues, who say the state health department’s punitive response could frustrate voluntary reporting of medical errors, reportedly the *third leading cause of death* in the United States." H/T @nickgeneshttps://twitter.com/ArthurAllen202/status/1090626493661802496 …
Yup. I wonder if Makary knows that he gave seeming scientific cover to a deceptive talking point first promulgated by the quack Gary Null in "Death by Medicine."
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It's also the reason I zero in like a laser beam on that canard whenever I see it, even if the article it appears in is otherwise sound. It's a harmful myth that obscures real issues with medical errors.
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And just try doing scicomm when the trolls pop up and just bleat that stupid estimate over and over. It was an own goal.
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