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As medicine advances and hospital care improves, wouldn't you ultimately arrive at a happy end where mistakes are, in fact, a leading cause of death? In the ag
by malchow 10y ago
As medicine advances and hospital care improves, wouldn't you ultimately arrive at a happy end where mistakes are, in fact, a leading cause of death?
In the aggregate and over time, "mistake" is definitely a more desirable cause of death than "we did not know how to fix him," or "we could not afford the machine," or "we did not have enough of the right pills."
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoDepends on the rate of course. If mistakes killed most of the inmates then no, not happy. And mistakes are often avoidable at little cost, so especially tragic.
- malchow 10y ago"mistakes are often avoidable at little cost" Yes, absolutely. I do think my point holds, though–it is not axiomatic that it is indicative of bad care that medical mistakes are rising as a proportional cause of mortality.