A 2016 Johns Hopkins study found more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year from medical errors, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Another study reported higher figures and estimated numbers of premature deaths associated with preventable harm to patients at more than 400,000 per year. This actual number…

Most people wouldn’t have any difficulty recognizing heart disease and cancer as the top causes of death in the United States. However, most folks are shocked to learn that the No. 3 cause of death in America is medical mistakes. In a famous paper published by the Institute of Medicine in 1999 titled “To Err…