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Princess marries in Germany Hospitals certainly save lives. But sometimes they hurt people. Even kill them. That's because - like all of us - doctors and nurses make mistakes, and even seemingly tiny ones can cause infections and other medical problems that put lives in jeopardy.
And the toll taken by medical errors in the hospital is bigger than you might imagine.
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