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,000 Dead, 17,000 Lawsuits: America's Invisible Medical Justice Gap
,000 Dead, 17,000 Lawsuits: America's Invisible Medical Justice Gap
Four hundred thousand people die in American hospitals every year from preventable causes, yet only seventeen thousand malpractice lawsuits are filed annually - a gap of 383,000 deaths with no legal reckoning. How can peer-reviewed science, CDC infection tallies, and documented patient-safety incidents coexist with a legal system that processes so few claims?
In this episode, we lay out the data and the system that produces that discrepancy, drawing on peer-reviewed research by John T. James, CDC figures, and large-sample…
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