[isaacfrond]

Interesting, according to the medium article: 1) the numbers used in the study are wrong 2) they are not representative and 3) the numbers do not represent medical error

From the article:

The problem is that this is very subjective and mostly assessable in hindsight — it’s easy to say on reviewing a person’s chart that they might’ve done better on different medication, but whether that really does constitute a medical error is complex and not nearly as cut-and-dried as the BMJ paper suggests.

[raverbashing]

Yeah, there are medical errors like "patient got the opposite treatment of what they should have been given" or "gross misdiagnosis" but there's also "didn't get the ideal drug for their case - but got something ok"

These are not the same thing