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Message: [QUOTE="Whtdmd, post: 2684739, member: 8024"] There r lots of medical errors and we have a M & M report for residents physicians once a month. There is a peer review committee once a month that only the Medical Executive committee goes to. I can tell u that the errors and deaths are exaggerated. Most of the medical errors that cause a healthy pt to died will result in a limitation of privileges. If u r a doc and screw up an elective gastric bypass surgery and the pt dies. U have a meeting before the peer review committee. Most error are on pts who should not be operated on because of their poor prognosis. The cardiac surgeons are know being judged by their 30 day mortality. This has resulted in less riskier cardiac surgical procedures with less complications. This is also resulting in more deaths as the surgeons are not operating on higher risk pts. Medical error being the 3rd leading cause of deaths r just plain BS. [/QUOTE]