"According to HealthGrades, the health-care-rating organization that conducted the study, needless deaths averaged 195,000 a year in 2000, 2001, and 2002. 'That's the equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people dying each year,' says Dr. Samantha Collier, vice president of medical affairs." - Newsweek,August 2, 2004

"The study by Health Grades Inc., a health-care consulting firm in Colorado that rates hospitals, estimated that medical errors in U.S. hospitals contributed to almost 600,000 patient deaths over the past three years, double the number if deaths from a study published in 2000 by the Institute of Medicine."- The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2004

"Start with healthgrades.com. This is a website you can go to that will give you the lowdown on some 650,000 doctors across the country. You can actually sort their names by specialty, location, they give you everything from board certification to number of years in the profession, lots of details, lots of data." - CNN, May 12, 2004