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Medical Negligence is Widespread and Deadly Researchers for the Institute of Medicine found that medical errors - from surgical mistakes to dispensing the wrong medicine - kill 98,000 patients a year, including 4,500 children.
Medical errors kill more Americans than diabetes, influenza and Alzheimer's every year - and if tracked separately would be the sixth leading cause of death.
Errors increase healthcare costs as much as $29 billion each year in additional treatment and longer hospital stays.
This video on medical errors was written and produced by Rob Feldman and Keiko Johnson of Juris Productions.
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