Hospitals are pretty stigmatized considering all the good that comes out of them.

People don't really die there--and when they do, about 30% of the time it's because of a human mistake. Every day--or other day--the number of people that die in these hospitals because of misdiagnosese and eff ups in the United States of America is equivalent to that of two jumbo jets crashing.

So aside from that, when we die in hospitals, it's not because of the hospitals, it's because we're dying before that.

That's expected though. What's crazier to me is the number of people that don't die. So many more lives are affected by people not dying than those that are. When people die, there is only that number of people that know them. It will be that number until shrinks as they die too.

When people walk out alive, though, they reach a lot more people.

Since my brother was in a coma for a month and expected to die, but didn't, that's how I've regarded hospitals. He didn't die. And that place helped him not.