Medical errors are still killing patients in the U.S, let’s talk about it!

Published at DOTmed.com
January 18, 2021
By: Doron Besser, Chief Executive Officer of ENvizion

Sitting just behind heart disease and cancer, medical errors in hospitals were cited as the
third leading cause of death in the United States in 2016, according to the BMJ, and the
truth is not enough has been done to address the issue since. Considering how looked after
we feel in a hospital setting, it’s a rather frightening statistic. It’s therefore important to remind
ourselves that throughout history, from treating polio to discovering insulin, analytical inquiry has proven itself a crucial
prerequisite to innovation and improvement. Sometimes, regardless of the veracity of such statistics, it takes a wellcirculated
critique to serve as a wake-up call for an industry to thoroughly re-evaluate itself.

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