It's Not the Disease, It's the Cure that will Kill You.

Hospitals are one of the most dangerous places to be. 
Are immigrants working in hospitals a correlating factor in this problem? m/r
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Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States - The Washington Post

By Ariana Eunjung Cha  5-3-16

Nightmare stories of nurses giving potent drugs meant for one patient to another and surgeons removing the wrong body parts  have dominated recent headlines about medical care. Lest you assume those cases are the exceptions, a new study by patient safety researchers provides some context.

Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that "medical errors" in hospitals and other health care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third leading cause of death in the
United States -- claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer's.

Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that the category includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another.

"It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeing care," Makary said.

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The issue of patient safety has been a hot topic in recent years, but it wasn't always that way.

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