As medicine advances and hospital care improves, wouldn&#x27;t you ultimately arrive at a happy end where mistakes <i>are</i>, in fact, a leading cause of death?<p>In the aggregate and over time, &quot;mistake&quot; is definitely a more desirable cause of death than &quot;we did not know how to fix him,&quot; or &quot;we could not afford the machine,&quot; or &quot;we did not have enough of the right pills.&quot;