Nothing to see here: 10% of all deaths in the US are due to medical errors in hospitals and clinics.
From John Hopkins website - 2016:
SHARE FAST FACTS *10 percent of all U.S. deaths are now due to medical error. *Third highest cause of death in the U.S. is medical error *Medical errors are an under-recognized cause of death
"Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S"
Good book to get: "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care" by Marty Makary (Bloomsbury Press, 2012).
These are the errors the medical professionals will acknowledge.
There are many, many others that are either too subtle to notice or slight enough that they can look the other way and claim something else was to blame.
My spouse has had two close calls in post-op due to just a little too much pain control that ended up suppressing my spouse's heart rate (below 30 bpm). The second time, the monitors were not even plugged into the wall so the nurse station had no idea. Had I not been there, she could have gone into arrest and assumed room temperature before they would have noticed.