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Are Hospitals the New Killing Fields?

The frontlines of America’s health-care system are under fire as incompetently run death traps. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on why the case against hospitals is wildly overblown.

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What is the most dangerous place on earth? Afghanistan? Gitmo? The San Andreas Fault? Nope, you're way off: It's the American hospital, where 100,000 people are killed each and every year, about the same number of Americans as died in the Vietnam and First World Wars combined.

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