[deport]

-A popular claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States originated in a 2016 back-of-the-envelope analysis published in the British Medical Journal
-This ranking is an exaggeration that was arrived at by combining a small number of studies done in populations that were not meant to be representative of the entire U.S. population and that were not designed to prove a link between a medical error and death
-The claim is often used by proponents of alternative medicine to scare people away from medical care.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/medical-error-not-third-leading-cause-death

[metmom]

This ranking is an exaggeration that was arrived at by combining a small number of studies done in populations that were not meant to be representative of the entire U.S. population and that were not designed to prove a link between a medical error and death

Considering the competence of the medical care mr. mm and I have received and observed in others over the last decades, I would have no problem believing that stat.