from my book, The Danger Within Us - calculations based on medical error plus drug and device complications, surgical deaths: Even if calculation was wrong, if one cut the estimate in half - med interventions would still comprise 3rd leading cause of death. https://t.co/Ik7OyjlMV3
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That is less unbelievable, but still a stretch. As am aside, for innumeracy, you really should check out Gary Null's latest "death by medicine" numbers. He tried mightily to get to 1M deaths per year due to medical error, but just feel short.
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I like these estimates that not only make us responsible for every death in every hospital but also require us to apparently kill an extra few hundred thousand people a year. So I guess the question now is, who haven’t we killed?
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