Headlines this winter screamed the bad news: Emergency physicians are literally killing people!

“As many as 250,000 people die every year because they are misdiagnosed in the emergency room, with doctors failing to identify serious medical conditions like stroke, sepsis and pneumonia,” reported The New York Times.

It’s a bloodbath in there, chimed in CNN, warning that the ED gets it significantly wrong for every 18th patient. As a result, the news channel continued, a staggering 2.6 million people suffer a preventable harm every year.

That’s more people than the population of New Mexico harmed every year—by us.

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