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Medical Malpractice third leading cause of death in United States

The Journal of the American Medical Association reported recently that Medical Malpractice has become the third largest killer of Americans led only by heart disease and cancer. Roughly 180,000 Americans die every year from something that happened to them while under medical care. These figures, gathered in a New York State study indicated that 4% of people who are admitted into hospitals suffer from iatrogenic (doctor induced) injury that results in a measurable disability. This translates into 98,000 people every year in New York state alone. Out of those 98,000, 14% (almost 14,000) died. If these figures are applied to the number of hospital admissions in the rest of the country, in excess of 180,000 people are killed every year in this country by the health care system.

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