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On the other side of the world it appears that medical error is working its way to the top of the list of the causes of preventable deaths.

Death By Medicine

Here in New Zealand it has been claimed that medical error, including adverse reactions to drugs, claims over 3,000 lives per year making this the 3rd leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. That the very distant 4th placeholder (road smashes) gets so much attention while medical error receives so little, is a mystery to me and bordering on being downright scandalous.

With the ageing population and the increasing medicalisation of the healthy, I predict it will not be long before medical error becomes the leading cause of preventable death in the developed world.

From where I sit medical error may already be at the top of the list because most of the heart disease and cancer deaths are not presently preventable. Errors, on the other hand, are entirely preventable

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