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by biotech 2116 days ago
> 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-t...