Death of Americans: The Medical System is Now the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

A new study says that the number of deaths from medical errors may be much higher than what is being reported. This study estimates that between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death. That would make medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second. However, if you factor in deaths from medicine that are NOT mistakes, it easily makes the medical system the #1 cause of death in the U.S. today.