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Shocking Fact: Preventable Medical Mistakes Kill Over a Quarter Million People Every Year

What Happened: Medical errors kill more than a quarter million people every year in the United States and injure millions more. According to Dr. Peter Pronovost, a physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, if you add up all of the preventable medical mistakes, then “you probably the third leading cause of death” in the country. If…

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