Depending on whose statistics you go by, somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 people a year in the U.S. are dying from medical mistakes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/opinion/more-treatment-more-mistakes.html?_r=0

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/09/health/medical-mistakes/index.html

This is 548 people per day.

save us Bob Costas!