re: Monsters inside me: TV show, wow, Doctors and specialists are incompetent

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third leading cause of death

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This is such a BS statistic and needs to die. That John’s Hopkins study extrapolated from other studies reporting 9 and 14 deaths then applied it to the rest of the country.

This absurdly high death count would mean that over 50% of hospital deaths are due to medical error.

Nah…. Most hospital deaths are because people are fricking sick. And fat. Sick and fat. And old. Sick, fat, and old.

These statistics are propaganda cited by journalists for clicks and hospital safety officers for jobs.

That said, I’m not against patient safety initiatives. I’m just against this statistic.