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Sylvia Caras <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:09:12 -0700
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"For commercial aviation to take the same toll in the United States 
as medical errors do, a sold-out 747 would have to crash every three 
days, killing everyone on board."

Kathryn Schultz, Being Wrong, 2010. HarperCollins, p 300 citing 
"Observing more senior physicians." Nancy Berlinger, After Harm: 
Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness (The John Hopkins 
University Press, 2005), 41

IOM notes that medical mistakes cost the US between $17 and $29 
billion annually.





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