Bad Surgeon: Barriers to Addressing Medical Misconduct

[mike1003]

Originally Posted by swagger

Doctors kill 5x as many people as are killed with guns every year, including suicides.

SOURCE???????????????


Quite an exaggeration, me thinks

[mike1003]

Originally Posted by EDS_

Interesting but colossally incorrect.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/917696?form=fpf

From your link. Great article.

The idea that 'medical errors are the third leading cause of death' has become a powerful cultural meme immune to correction.

Yes, there are medical errors and flat out malpractice, but to post what poster did is truly out of place and totally unsupported

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by AnywhereElse

It is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US

Nope.

Bad paper based on poor assumptions, poor statistical analysis, and extrapolation to the entire US based on only a little over a dozen deaths, mainly in Medicare populations.

https://healthjournalism.org/blog/20...ould-question/

"Missing in the coverage was scrutiny of the researchers’ flawed methods, which involved extrapolating death rates from unrepresentative patient populations and making unsubstantiated causal connections between errors and deaths."

Criticism from the UK:

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/26/5/423

From Canada:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/cr...ng-cause-death

From Australia:

https://www.puffnstuff.com.au/no-med...s-deaths/70045