Dead by Mistake
August 12th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
“Experts estimate that a staggering 98,000 people die from preventable medical errors each year. More Americans die each month of preventable medical injuries than died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”
The paragraph leads the home page of a new Web site devoted to what it calls “a critical and neglected health care issue.” Dead by Mistake is a project of Hearst newspapers and television stations that aims to shed light on an issue that plagues healthcare in the U.S. The site includes video, case studies, and photos that put a human face on these tragedies, as well as articles about the lack of progress on the national and state levels and how hospitals have been slow to adopt lifesaving practices.
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