"We’ve all been horrified by the medical blunders made in dealing with Ebola in the United States—from sending home a patient who was showing symptoms and had recently travelled to West Africa to relying on inadequate protocols or protection that led to the infection of two of his nurses.
It’s awful, but we shouldn’t be surprised. These types of hospital mistakes—caused by knowledge gaps, carelessness, unpreparedness or a combination of all—by my estimate kill between 210,000 and 440,000 people in the United States every year. The numbers indicate that preventable medical errors—from infections to botched surgeries to administration of the wrong medicine—are the third leading cause of death in the country, behind only heart disease and cancer. It is gratifying and heartbreaking at the same time to know that my research has been endorsed by leading experts in this field.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/are-hospitals-more-deadly-than-ebola-112080.html?hp=pm_1#.VEeqbfmG81I
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