Cyan comments on Book Review: Complications - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 02 July 2009 04:45:33PM * 1 point [-]

...doctors are just as wrong now as they were eighty years ago

... in cases where the patient dies. (The cited statistic does not refer to the overall error rate.)

Comment author: Annoyance 07 July 2009 06:03:33PM 1 point [-]

Yes. But that isn't the point. It holds across all deaths, not those necessarily caused by the error.

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