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> Preventable medical error is almost certainly in the top 5 causes of deaths in the united states. This is untrue, a very common myth based on a questionable
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> Preventable medical error is almost certainly in the top 5 causes of deaths in the united states.
This is untrue, a very common myth based on a questionable study out of Johns Hopkins, which included known complications of medical procedures in the classification of "medical error."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-2019-edition/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-t...