Do you really believe that 60% of all inpatient deaths are due to medical error? Yes or no?
How about this. I know you don't think your assessment of the plausibility of Makary's estimates for death by medical error matters. However, I want to know it anyway? Do you consider his estimates to be plausible and why or why not?
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ah, so just my conjecture then? Sure, I think their estimates, and all the other estimates I have seen thus far, are unlikely. My gut feel is that medical errors account for somewhere north of 40,000 deaths a year. But again, my gut isn't a study, my gut isn't an estimate
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Of course, there are numbers, better numbers, to which you can refer than Makary.
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