Medical Mistakes In America

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Illnesses and diseases are things, as humans, that we live with. They are things that we will never know will affect us, or a loved one, until it happens. When one is sick, we go to our doctors for help, because we feel they are the experts. We all know however, that doctors, surgeons, and others in the medical field can make mistakes. It happens, and it is only normal, because they are human too. But when so many mistakes have happened and medical errors have become one of the top reasons for deaths in America, we know that we have a serious problem that needs to be improved. Heart disease and cancer kills more Americans than any other illness ("Medical Mistakes"). Medical errors follow as the third leading cause of death in America ("Medical