* According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just under 11,000 people die each year as a result of alcohol-impaired automobile accidents. A 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine estimated that as many as 98,000 people a year died in hospitals from medical errors. A 2010 survey from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services found that about one in seven Medicare patients in hospitals suffers a serious medical mistake. The report says these adverse events contribute to the deaths of an estimated 180,000 patients a year. Among those events, roughly 80,000 are caused by errors that could be caught and prevented, such as letting infections develop, giving a patient the wrong ...
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