A thoughtful point-by-point response to the underlying medical journal publication:<p>&quot;Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencebasedmedicine.org&#x2F;are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencebasedmedicine.org&#x2F;are-medical-errors-real...</a><p>Simply put, the headline of the article kindly submitted here surely exaggerates the actual problem. What&#x27;s undoubtedly a problem is that we don&#x27;t yet have good data-gathering about when patients die unavoidably and when they die when they could have been saved by standard-of-care medical treatment.