Mortal medical mistakes

When we’re sick, injured or close to dying, we look for aid and assistance from the medical community — doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical technicians.

Yet more than 250,000 people are killed every year by these same people, not

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While medical and health care personnel are dedicated to keeping their patients alive and well, errors occur simply because they’re human, and humans make mistakes.

Death due to medical error is defined as one caused by inadequately skilled staff, error in judgment or care, a system defect or a preventable adverse effect. This includes computer breakdowns, mixups with the doses or types of medications administered to patients and surgical complications that go undiagnosed.

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