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Originally Posted by Dusty_Star
I'm very sorry for your family's pain & trauma.
According to our friend Google iatrogenic deaths are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. with something like 1/4 million annually.
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And "your friend" google is citing bogus data from the Johns Hopkins bogus study. The problem is with the definition of "iatrogenic death", which also probably varies from state to state. I can only speak for NY. If a terminal patient with stage 4 pancreatic cancer receives a standing dose of Tylenol outside the 1 hour window----lets say 31 minutes early, that is considered a "medication error" and must be reported to the state health department. When he dies 10 days later, it is an "iatrogenic death" since there was a medication "error" during the hospital stay. Now, when Hopkins gathered "iatrogenic death" data from the states, guess how badly their data was skewed. This is not to say there aren't any iatrogenic deaths, just that the Hopkins study greatly overestimated them.