The Sixth Leading Cause of Death
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) preventable medical errors kill as many as 98,000 people every year at a cost of $29 billion.
If the Centers for Disease Control classified medical errors as a category it would be the sixth leading cause of death, killing more people annually than auto accidents or guns. 1
Yet, according to the National Practitioners Data Bank Study there are only 14,000 medical malpractice payments a year. When health care corporations and bureaucratic regulators fail to protect the public, the civil justice system is the last resort for injured patients to hold wrongdoers accountable. Civil justice attorneys work to make sure people have a fair chance to receive justice through the legal system when they are injured—even when it means taking on the most powerful corporations who seek to limit the constitutional right of those injured.2
Sources:
1 Deaths/Mortality, 2004, National Center for Health Care Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm.
2 Deaths/Mortality, 2004, National Center for Health Care Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm.
See http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/8677.htm
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For additional information contact:
Alan L. Morton
MORTON LAW OFFICES, CHARTERED
1005 North Eighth Street
Post Office Box 420
Boise, ID 83701-0420
Telephone: 208.344.5555
Toll Free: 866.946.1669 (866.WIN.1.NOW)
Facsimile: 208.342.2509
Email: amorton@mortonlawyers.com
Website: www.mortonlawyers.com
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) preventable medical errors kill as many as 98,000 people every year at a cost of $29 billion.
If the Centers for Disease Control classified medical errors as a category it would be the sixth leading cause of death, killing more people annually than auto accidents or guns. 1
Yet, according to the National Practitioners Data Bank Study there are only 14,000 medical malpractice payments a year. When health care corporations and bureaucratic regulators fail to protect the public, the civil justice system is the last resort for injured patients to hold wrongdoers accountable. Civil justice attorneys work to make sure people have a fair chance to receive justice through the legal system when they are injured—even when it means taking on the most powerful corporations who seek to limit the constitutional right of those injured.2
Sources:
1 Deaths/Mortality, 2004, National Center for Health Care Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm.
2 Deaths/Mortality, 2004, National Center for Health Care Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm.
See http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/8677.htm
____________________________________________________
For additional information contact:
Alan L. Morton
MORTON LAW OFFICES, CHARTERED
1005 North Eighth Street
Post Office Box 420
Boise, ID 83701-0420
Telephone: 208.344.5555
Toll Free: 866.946.1669 (866.WIN.1.NOW)
Facsimile: 208.342.2509
Email: amorton@mortonlawyers.com
Website: www.mortonlawyers.com
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