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. 2016 May 3:353:i2139.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.i2139.

Medical error-the third leading cause of death in the US

Martin A Makary¹, Michael Daniel²

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¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA mmakary1@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

PMID: 27143499
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i2139

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Medical error-the third leading cause of death in the US

Martin A Makary et al. BMJ. 2016.

. 2016 May 3:353:i2139.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.i2139.

Authors

Martin A Makary¹, Michael Daniel²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA mmakary1@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

PMID: 27143499
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i2139

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