A thoughtful point-by-point response to the underlying medical journal publication:

"Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?"

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-real...

Simply put, the headline of the article kindly submitted here surely exaggerates the actual problem. What's undoubtedly a problem is that we don't yet have good data-gathering about when patients die unavoidably and when they die when they could have been saved by standard-of-care medical treatment.