Medical error-the third leading cause of death in the US

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA mmakary1@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

Comment

Martin A Makary et al. BMJ. 2016.

. 2016 May 3:353:i2139.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.i2139.

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA mmakary1@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

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