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A thoughtful point-by-point response to the underlying medical journal publication: "Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.
by tokenadult 10y ago
A thoughtful point-by-point response to the underlying medical journal publication:
"Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?"
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-real...
Simply put, the headline of the article kindly submitted here surely exaggerates the actual problem. What's undoubtedly a problem is that we don't yet have good data-gathering about when patients die unavoidably and when they die when they could have been saved by standard-of-care medical treatment.
- carc 10y agoWhy is this being downvoted?
- extra88 10y agoMaybe because the first paragraph is a non sequitur swipe at the business of alternative medicine and two people in particular. Or maybe because there's apparently an online campaign against the article author. The first paragraph may not be so random in the blog's context, I expect a blog called Science Based Medicine would spend a lot of time doing battle with alternative medicine adherents, but it detracts from this specific article which does a good job deflating this medical errors headline.