Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer.
A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors.
Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.
This is a story of a staggering atrocity by both police officers and prison officials committed to a person with epilepsy upon arrest. His mother wrote to me here…