Medicine is more deadly than malaria, but nobody admits their mistakes
What's the connection between medicine and the aeronautics industry? Sadly, there isn't one—and medicine is definitely poorer for it.
Around 2.6 million people die every year because of a mistake or oversight across the world's healthcare systems, making medicine more deadly even than malaria. Although every death is an unnecessary tragedy, nothing much seems to improve; medicine keeps on posting similar numbers of accidental deaths every year, and