"Hospitals are terrible places for sick people." Reaffirming the idea that, if you've got humans involved, you will have human error, a recent Forbes article discusses the seven scariest hospital risks. The article does an excellent job of detailing the inherent problems in our hospital industry, and offers helpful advice on how to avoid becoming the victim of medical mistakes which include surgeon errors, infection, and incorrect medications. The article observes that: "between 40,000 and 100,000 people die every year because of doctors' mistakes, including surgical mishaps and drug mix-ups. One big problem: Hospital patients may get the wrong drug one time out of five, according to a study by Auburn University. The death toll from mistakes is at least as bad as that from car accidents or breast cancer, and maybe as bad as that from strokes."