I was looking at site that was highlighting mortality rates in the US http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/death/overview.htm Estimated figures puts deaths caused by medical errors from 44.000 to 225,000 per year. At the lower end it would put medical errors in the top ten list of causes of death in the US. The top end estimate would make it third on the list below cancer and heart disease making the medical profession the third biggest killer in the USA. I imagine these figures dont include deaths caused by the dental associations with amalgam .If all of that was put together who knows what that revised figure would look like. Scary!!