It may actually be good news. Depending on how the stats are made. That a death qualifies as a medical mistake means that proper treatment existed. For example

It may actually be good news. Depending on how the stats are made. That a death qualifies as a medical mistake means that proper treatment existed. For example let's say that 50% of people die from "the plague". The plague is lethal and untreatable, no medical mistakes can be made because nothing can be done. One day, a cure is found, cheap and 100% effective, unfortunately, the procedure is tricky and as a result, 1 out of 5 times, it is done improperly and the patient dies. In the end, 4/5 cases survive, which is great news, is used to be zero, but if we look at the share of deaths because of medical mistakes, it has increased a lot. Of course, it needs to be fixed, but usually, it is something we know is fixable, better than a disease without treatment.