Yeah, that’s a load of crap. A 2020 meta analysis found that the numbers are 1/10 that, and 2/3 of those people are those who had less than 3 months to live. In other words, medical errors tend to “kill” people who are already dying, and the number of healthy people for whom medical errors are the primary cause of death are exceedingly low.
Reducing medical errors is important, but making up nonsense statistics to grab headlines is just going to fuel the anti-medicine rhetoric even further.