Indeed, one of the things that needs to be kept topmost in mind when reading statistics like this is that people are going to die of something, and as we reduce or all but eliminate other causes, something or things are going to shift to being the new "top causes".
ADDED: and because nowadays, no later than the end of WWII, the former somethings have be forestalled by medical interventions, as those increase, the number "killed" by the simple fact that healthcare workers are fallible humans is going to rise.
My father survived the immediate post-WWII period when he got a nasty bacterial pneumonia I think it was because civilians were then able to get the earliest form(s) of penicillin. Thanks to that medical intervention, which could have killed him (I've read that penicillin would never get approved by the FDA today because of its allergy potential), and others, now he'll die of Alzheimer's in his mid-'80s or his '90s, if nothing else gets him first.
ADDED: and because nowadays, no later than the end of WWII, the former somethings have be forestalled by medical interventions, as those increase, the number "killed" by the simple fact that healthcare workers are fallible humans is going to rise.
My father survived the immediate post-WWII period when he got a nasty bacterial pneumonia I think it was because civilians were then able to get the earliest form(s) of penicillin. Thanks to that medical intervention, which could have killed him (I've read that penicillin would never get approved by the FDA today because of its allergy potential), and others, now he'll die of Alzheimer's in his mid-'80s or his '90s, if nothing else gets him first.