Medical mistakes may be deadlier than any virus

By reading "Campaign on Hospital Errors Saves Lives", we should be glad that over a hundred thousands lives had been saved.

We may never be able to have the statistics of death caused by medical mistakes. No doctor would put this in black and white. Of course, even if that happened, doctors were not killers and never intended to do any harm. If such errors were due to the lack of doctor, overworked nurse etc., we could only blame the medical system.

When shall we have a perfect medical system? No way, we can be safe only by not falling ill.

One friend told me that her big brother was killed by medical mistake years ago. It happened that the nurse had put the wrong air pipe. The worst thing was that her mother was there by the bed and watched the son smothering to death and failed to get attention by any nurse.

Somehow, it may not be good to know too much because we need hospitals, we need doctors, we need nurses and it would be better to blame on our fate, or perhaps as the latest finding said, it is our gene that caused the problem.