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To: Brumar89 who wrote (759899)	12/28/2013 1:01:00 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575047

We've been through this before.....you want to treat the problem like a game and keep score. You don't recognize that people dieing from hospital mistakes is wrong period......in your mind if Canada and the UK had the same number/capita die in hospitals would make our deaths forgivable???? It's the 3rd leading cause of death in this country schmuck....

To: Brumar89 who wrote (759899)	12/28/2013 6:43:59 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575047

How many people die from mistakes in Canada or the UK Why U.S. hospitals aren't nearly as safe as you think Some staggering stats: *The U.S. ranks last out of 19 developed countries in preventable deaths in hospitals.* You are 33,000 times more likely to die from a hospital error than a plane crash. 1 in 5 patients in the U.S. suffer harm from medical errors. 7,000 people are killed each year by medication errors - giving the wrong pill or too much of the right pill. 1.7 million infections are contracted in the hospital each year. Check out the full list of frightening stats in this powerful infographic: