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Medical errors still harm too many people but there are glimpses of real change

  • Written by Michael L. Millenson, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
The U.S. is nowhere near the goal, set 20 years ago, of cutting medical errors in half. Thaiview/Shutterstock.com

In late November 1999, a TV producer called me about an alarming report that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans were being killed each year by preventable errors in hospitals and another 1 million were being injured.

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