It's the Ralph Nader radio hour.

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Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio.

My name is Steve Scrovin.

David Feldman is on assignment.

So he's not with us today.

But we do have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

Hello, Ralph.

Hello, everybody.

What an hour it's going to be.

Yes, what could we do when the people who are

supposed to heal us are the ones doing us harm?

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause

of death in the US is Iatrogenic, a fancy word that means

unintended yet avoidable harm done by a doctor.

Research suggests that hundreds of thousands of Americans

die every year because of failures in patient safety.

In their new book, Closing Deaths Door, Michael Sacks

and Stephen Lansman break down how our health care system

enables these failures.

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