Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in US
If you spend anytime with the medical industry you soon realize the issue.<p>I helped launched (the now deadpooled) Theil backed MetaMed a few years -- essentially a private research team for medicine, and what the founders taught me was astounding.<p>That things like amputating the wrong limbs, doctors not washing their hands and killing you by infection and a horror of other preventable errors are shocking common.<p>This didn&#x27;t even take into consideration that things discovered in labs that might cure you take at least 30 years to reach the doctors who might implement them, if they ever do.<p>The distortion of hubris from doctors, economic incentives and other systemic issues results in a &quot;health care system&quot; that doesn&#x27;t realily seem to do what it sets out to do -- we spend 10x what some developing countries do per year per person with no better outcomes.<p>Accute care seems to be reasonably good, fixing a broken arm, etc. (assuming they don&#x27;t accidentally remove it); but chronic care is often just a pipeline for the recurring revenue model of big pharma (at best).<p>The examples are never ending but for fun, take a google to discover how many pap smears are performed annually on women <i>who have already had their uterus removed</i> - then consider the cost to insurance and tax payers.