re: Are medical errors really the third leading cause of death in this country?

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I find it odd how many people get much more sick once they go to the hospital. I have 4 relatives in the past 5 years who have been on the brink of death because of stuff they caught in a hospital. One was hospitalized for 6 months because a doctor accidentally cut her colon open and she got a huge infection

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You find it odd? I call it evolution of an illness. Often when people become "sick" enough to come to the emergency room the illness had not yet reached it's peak in severity.

A small pneumonia can become sepsis which can lead to multi-organ failure with no fault of the physician.

Of course the accidental perforation of the colon does not apply to the above.