Don't recall the details, but I think this was for a few specific kinds of procedures (cardiac-related?). There certainly is a problem with iatrogenic deaths (

Don't recall the details, but I think this was for a few specific kinds of procedures (cardiac-related?). There certainly is a problem with iatrogenic deaths (those caused by medical attention itself), but it would be quite a bit too far to say that surgery is on balance harmful taken as a whole. (And indeed, the point of my remark was that a falling traffic fatality rate isn't necessarily a good thing, once one looks at the entire picture.)