If they don't get hurt much, life goes on. But don't blame doctors for failing to cure everyone, or for making mistakes. That's just life. There are bad doctors, and we eventually get them. But they are a miniscule proportion of the physicians in this country.
People get sick, they go to the hospital, sometimes they get better and sometimes they die.
I really see this as another case of superficial journalism masked as research, which will not stand up to serious scrutiny. Arthur Thexton '72 Madison, Wisc. But I remember it even gave a specific name to deaths caused by hospitals. The numbers were staggering even back in the 1960's. All rights reserved.