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Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that “medical errors” in hospitals and other health-care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.
“It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care,” Makary said. In 1999, an Institute of Medicine report calling preventable medical errors an “epidemic” shocked the medical establishment and led to significant debate about what could be done.
Comment: Many of these various professionals are not naturally inclined to be in their profession. Decades ago, my parents friends, made their son be a dentist, because his sister needed dental work and it was very expensive.
An old friend of mine, his mother worked for a lawyer, and she wanted a lawyer son. He did not like it, it he was real car guy, specialized in 1963 to 1967 Corvettes. My brother-in-law made his son, become a NYC cop. The kid I know since birth, he was NOT police material. He lasted 5 years and went into computers.
I recently asked a nice 25 year old nurse, that did not look like a nurse, how did you become a nurse? My mother was a nurse, and made me be a nurse. I told her, life is short, if you don’t like it do something else that you like.
Another nurse, a mail nurse, told me the same thing. My mother was a nurse. Then I met a doctor. A huge big black guy, he looked a weight lifter, belonged in movies or a football field. I asked him. What made to be a Doctor. “My father was a doctor.”
Lets face it about cops. Too many too jumpy. Too scared. Thousands of them have no business, not the right mentality, for that field. In it for the money, many small woman. Ex military, hunters, tough guys when they were kids fine. Candy asses don’t fit unless its Mayberry.