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However, their point is not about assigning blame, it's about tracking how many deaths could possibly have been prevented by improving the system rather than ig
by TallGuyShort 11y ago
However, their point is not about assigning blame, it's about tracking how many deaths could possibly have been prevented by improving the system rather than ignoring everything but diseases that put people in the system. So now that I think about it, it makes just as much sense to track and improve misdiagnosis just as much as mistakes in the pharmacy...
- cfmcdonald 11y agoSurely then it should not be framed as people "killed by medical errors", but rather people who could be saved by improving medicine. The way this is framed in the media is especially absurd, calling it the #3 cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Many of the deaths in question certainly were from heart disease and cancer. They are not disjoint categorizations.