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To: SeekAndFind
Low fatality rates for 2020 are, at this point, a mystery.

I believe a very large number of deaths each year are caused by medical malpractice. Currently, most people are staying away from their doctors. Resulting in fewer deaths.

3 posted on 04/23/2020 8:39:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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RE: I believe a very large number of deaths each year are caused by medical malpractice. Currently, most people are staying away from their doctors.

Are you saying that our doctors are mostly useless and kill more people than save lives?


6 posted on 04/23/2020 8:44:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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People are avoiding hospitals so they are not having fatal complications of surgeries, drug reactions, blood clots, too.


7 posted on 04/23/2020 8:48:12 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: ClearCase_guy
“I believe a very large number of deaths each year are caused by medical malpractice. Currently, most people are staying away from their doctors. Resulting in fewer deaths.”

Doesn't have to be malpractice. There are risks involved in all procedures, and if you decrease the number of those procedures you will have a decrease in short-term death. Plus, there are fewer people on the roads (less traffic deaths). People are also being more vigilant about symptoms, and the social isolation is probably also decreasing the incidence of other infectious diseases. There are likely several other contributors. Of course, malpractice does happen.

8 posted on 04/23/2020 8:50:48 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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I dropped out of nursing school because I could never live with the thought that I hurt someone in the course of doing my job. Yet we have doctors killing thousands of people every year with foolish mistakes and nothing ever happens.


10 posted on 04/23/2020 8:57:58 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: ClearCase_guy

I believe a very large number of deaths each year are caused by medical malpractice. Currently, most people are staying away from their doctors. Resulting in fewer deaths.


I think the first time I saw studies reporting over 100,000 per year was in the 1990s. Short term risk, vs longer term net benefit.


14 posted on 04/23/2020 10:06:54 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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