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This seems a more appropriate response to Alex3917's "at least question the journal articles" bit, as it supports phunel's point fairly well I think.

The "as many as 18%", "admitted to hospitals" and "Iatrogenic injuries" bits make this article say something dramatically different than "1 in 3 of all Americans (not just those hospitalized) die because of an error made by a physician".



There is actually a new study that just came out that the NY Times cited a week ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/health/research/25patient....

Even still that doesn't have much relevance to the 1 in 3 claim, because most people go to the doctors more than once in their life.


It wasn't meant solely as a response to Alex3917, I just thought it might be useful to add something actually from a peer reviewed journal to the discussion :)


You thought right, it was a great find; thanks :)




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