Strengthening the medical error “meme pool”

Summary

The debate around the presence of medical error in healthcare today still solicits debate. While it is agreed that one death due to medical error is too many, Mazer and Nabhan in this perspective discuss the intense interest by the media and others in numbers that are shared – whether they are accurate or not. They suggest instead that the focus of discussion and interest should not be solely on how many... but the "why."