If you think the "contingency fee liability lawyers just looking to strike it rich without regard to whose life or reputation they destroy" are using inaccurate numbers, you could provide the correct numbers, with appropriate citation to back that up. Oh wait, instead of challenging the accuracy of the numbers, you resorted to ad hominem fallacy. Whoopsy daisy!Bitter Clinger wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:26 amAnd certainly, none of these so-called statistics could possibly be due to the fact that we are overrun with contingency fee liability lawyers just looking to strike it rich without regard to whose life or reputation they destroy? Oh wait, both of your citations were in fact published by just such ambulance chasing blood suckers. Whoopsy daisy!ninjabread wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:47 ammedical-malpractice-deaths-u-s-exceed-gun-deaths-wide-marginBitter Clinger wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:00 pmGot a citation to back that up?ninjabread wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:33 pm According to a recent study, AMA members kill more people in the USA than Al Qaeda members.
A recent study by Johns Hopkins University analyzed eight years of data – which is equivalent to two presidential terms – to look into the problem of medical malpractice in the United States. Turns out, medical malpractice kills at least 250,000 Americans every year, which is a rather modest figure compared to other studies showing that medical malpractice deaths in the U.S. total more than 400,000 a year.
doctors-kill-people-year-preventable-deaths-car-accidents-gunsWhat about guns. School shootings. Terrorism.
That is about 33,000 a year—which is a disgusting number by itself.
But preventable medical errors causing deaths? Almost 7x as many deaths! Approximately 250,00 confirmed fatalities due to preventable medical errors. And some researchers believe that number could be closer to 440,000.
