There are over 200,000 deaths each year related to medical errors that go reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople can and do die from strokes, cancer and similar diseases,\u201d said Michael Smith, an injury and accident lawyer, practicing personal injury law in Arkansas, \u201cbut we rarely hear about the silent specter of death that walks down the hallways in hospitals: medical errors. They are more prevalent than anyone wants to admit because they don\u2019t want to get sued.\u201d<\/p>\n
The leading cause of death in the U.S. is heart disease, followed closely by respiratory diseases, stroke and car accidents. The statistics are understandably difficult to unearth about hospital errors that result in death.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe unnerving statistics that reveal death by hospital error are enough to make one wonder what is going on in the health care system today. There are over 200,000 deaths related to nosocomial infections and medical errors that aren\u2019t noticed and aren\u2019t reported. That is a (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are over 200,000 deaths each year related to medical errors that go reported. \u201cPeople can and do die from strokes, cancer and similar diseases,\u201d said Michael Smith, an injury and accident lawyer, practicing personal injury law in Arkansas, \u201cbut…<\/span><\/p>\n