The third leading cause of death: medical errors

Research has found that medical errors–doctors’ mistakes, communication mix-ups, and hospital-borne infections–are now the third leading cause of death. From Ariana Eunjung Cha, Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States – The Washington Post: Nightmare stories of nurses giving potent drugs meant for one patient to another and surgeons removing the wrong body [Read More...]