Passage Summary: A researcher notes that as many people die from medical errors or hospital issues as from everything else put together. They conclude that if we fixed medicine, only half as many people would die each year.

Conclusion: Eliminating deaths caused by medical treatment would result in a fifty percent reduction in the total number of annual deaths.

Reasoning: Currently, the number of people who die from medical treatments or hospitalization is approximately equal to the number of people who die from all other causes combined.

Analysis: This argument fails to account for the inevitability of death. It assumes that if you prevent someone from dying of a medical error today, they won't simply die of their original underlying illness or another cause shortly thereafter. In logic terms, the researcher treats 'cause of death' as if preventing one cause removes the person from the mortality pool entirely. Look for an answer that points out that those saved from iatrogenic disease might still die from other causes within the same year.