RT Book, Section
A1 Vinluan, Michael
A1 Rich II, Archie L.
A1 Young, Matthew H. H.
A2 Quang, Tony S.
A2 Taft, Michelle S.
A2 Beriwal, Sushil
SR Print(0)
ID 1191391661
T1 Medical Malpractice
T2 Understanding the Principles and Practice of Legal Oncology
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260474077
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1191391661
RD 2024/04/24
AB A  team  from  Johns  Hopkins  Medicine  estimated  that  a  quarter  of  a  million  people  die  each  year  as  a  result  of  a  medical  error.1  The  study  ranks  medical  error  as  the  third  leading  cause  of  death  in  the  United  States  (250,000  deaths),  next  to  heart  disease  (650,000  deaths)  and  cancer  (600,000  deaths).2  To  put  it  in  perspective,  the  study  suggests  that  more  people  die  each  year  from  medical  errors  than  from  accidents/unintentional  injuries  (170,000  deaths),  chronic  lower  respiratory  disease  (160,000  deaths),  or  stroke  (150,000  deaths).2,3