Medical malpractice kills an incredible number of people. It is responsible for many more deaths than what is commonly recognized because it is always covered up whenever possible.
Medical malpractice almost killed me.
I had a persistent cough that kept me up all night. A friend who worked in the medical field told me to go to the emergency room.
The doc examined me and said I had bronchitis and was going to send me home with antibiotics. He left, the nurse came in to give me a once over and she didn’t like what she heard in my chest. She convinced the doc to give me an x-ray. After, the doc says I have pneumonia in both lungs and needed to be admitted for 24 hours for serious antibiotics.
The next day, when they are about to send me home, someone notices that my blood oxygen level has dropped to 70. That got their attention. They did an MRI and discovered I was in the middle of a double pulmonary embolism. I was later told that if they had sent me home, I would have died a couple of hours later.