The Number
A number nobody knows
795,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled every year — from diagnostic error alone.
Not from rare disease. From being seen too late, or not seen at all — by a system built to rescue after the crash instead of reading the curve before it.
It is the kind of number that should reorganize how a country thinks about health. The system that produces it isn’t broken by accident; it’s built for the wrong moment. Health 4.0 is built for the moment before.
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