I discussed this issue in detail on @ScienceBasedMed a while back. Basically these huge numbers of deaths sure to "medical error" are vastly inflated by study design and definitions of what constitutes an "error." 2/2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s/ …
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I can see 400,000 errors of some kind. Mispelling a last name on a chart is an error. But 400k deaths due to them? Common sense tells you no.
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