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Medical errors kill around a quarter-million people a year. Third-leading cause of death. Anderson JG, Abrahamson K. Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Err
by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Medical errors kill around a quarter-million people a year. Third-leading cause of death.
Anderson JG, Abrahamson K. Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;234:13-17. PMID: 28186008.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/
Medical residents are capped at 80 hours per-week making around $50k/year, and this is sold as some sort of breakthrough over the previous system where they were working well-in-excess of those 80/week for years during their residency.
What is normalized in the healthcare system is beyond insane.