“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.”
CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY AND ERIC NALDER, “Dead by Mistake: Within health care hides massive, avoidable death toll“, HEARST NEWSPAPERS, Aug. 9, 2009