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by Jonathan Woodson

March 15, 2018mikulas1/Getty Images
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In a landmark 2016 study Johns Hopkins researchers estimated that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from treatment-related mistakes, making medical error the third-leading cause of death in the United States. As a former military flight surgeon trained in aviation accident investigations, I know well the hazards of misusing or mistrusting instruments.

Jonathan Woodson , MD, is the head of Boston University’s Institute for Health Systems Innovation and Policy and the Larz Anderson Professor in Management at the school’s  Questrom School of Business. As U.S. assistant secretary of defense for health affairs from 2010 to 2016, he oversaw health care for all active members of the U.S. military.
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