SeabeckS
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I thought riding a motorcycle in the United States was all about have having fun, freedom and enjoyment.
The bleak stuff is-
Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher 2014 between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says.
That would make medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second.
Courtesy of The Scientific American
OM
Well, I beat heart disease. Well on the way to defeating cancer. Guess my next challenge is a medical error!