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Originally Posted by GoodLife
I was assured by another Doctor on this forum that ProPublica.org was a very good source.  Their article quotes studies done by Institute of Medicine, Inspector General for Health and Human Services, and the Journal for Patient Safety.
Here's another one from John Hopkins. Are these guys bean counters too?
Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S.
Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. - 05/03/2016
So you are saying all these Doctor/hospital deaths are bogus? It's all the nurses fault?
Can you post a link to another unbiased source showing the true number? I think that some might think a source from Doctor organizations might be biased.
I'm not trying to knock Doctors down, several of them have saved my life, just comparing the death rates vs Police shootings of unarmed civilians. I can change the title to "medical error deaths" if that's more accurate. |
The problem is not with your source, the problem is WHAT they are counting. In the example I gave, how can you possibly believe it was "the nurse's fault". The problem is that regulatory authorities have decided to count meaningless nonsense in the "death" statistics. My girlfriend is a nurse that works in informatics. They now want to count "near mistakes" What the heck is a "near mistake" ?
Now, there are some "bad" doctors out there, and there are mistakes they make that cause patient deaths. I could tell you stories that would scare you to "death". But the magnitude is nowhere near what these studies report, again, most of these "mistakes" are irrelevant.