According to the 1999 Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 deaths each year are caused by:

a. Cardiovascular disease
b. Obesity
c. Medical error
d. Drug overdose

ANS: C
In 2000, it was thought that our health care system was expensive and that access and quality were not optimal, but we had not considered this important fact: many people die of preventable medical errors in the United States.