Talk about &quot;Lies, damned lies and statistics.&quot; Why do these reports always understate, by many orders of magnitude, the number of U.S. patients killed by medical errors every year?<p>440,000 patients are killed by avoidable errors each year in hospitals alone, according to a 2013 hospital industry organization report.*<p>And don&#x27;t forget about non-error-related iatrogenic fatalities, such as fatal cancers induced by CT scans, which the Archives of Internal Medicine estimates to kill 15,000 patients per year.<p>Or about non-fatal iatrogenic injuries, both error-induced and non-error-induced, many of which result in mortality in subsequent years.<i></i><p>No exaggeration to say that U.S. healthcare workers are one of the most lethal forces on Earth today.<p>Sources:
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