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In reply to the discussion: Mass shootings overblown? Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests that's the case... [View all]VMA131Marine
(4,137 posts)Imagine if there were 500 airline passenger deaths per day due to pilot mistakes. Nobody would ever get on an airplane!
The fact that there are so few airline passenger deaths every year is because there is an agency, the NTSB, dedicated to understanding what went wrong in a crash and proposing measures to prevent similar chains of events from occurring.
The medical profession could easily implement the same kind of thing. To say that the doctors hope the mistakes go unnoticed is completely unacceptable. That would be one big reason why there are 500 deaths per day due to medical errors. It's not enough, in the medical profession, to intend not to harm. Doctors and all medical staff need to be proactive about preventing mistakes or catching them early before any harm is done.