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,000 Dead: Why Hospitals Kill Far More Than Courts Admit
,000 Dead: Why Hospitals Kill Far More Than Courts Admit
The scale is staggering: peer‑reviewed research estimates 400,000 Americans die each year from preventable hospital errors - more than the entire U.S. World War II death toll - yet only about 17,000 malpractice cases reach courts annually. How does a healthcare system that records 1.14 million patient safety incidents across 37 million Medicare hospitalizations let so many deaths disappear from legal accountability?
In this episode, we lay out the documented record of where those numbers come from, how studies and federal data compiled…
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