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The Landscape of Medical Errors

By Kerry Grens on Monday, July 25, 2005.

Medical errors are estimated to be one of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States.

Up until about the last decade information on errors was either non-existent or kept secret.

As hospitals become more open and the public more aware, the landscape of errors is coming into view.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Kerry Grens has more on what it looks like in the state.

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