98,000: Annual Deaths From Medical Errors In The U.S

When there is a plane crash in the U.S., even a minor one, it makes headlines.The world of American medicine is far deadlier: Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets. But these mistakes go largely unnoticed by the world at large, and the medical community rarely learns from them. 

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