曾主演过多部大片包括「龙卷风」、「铁达尼号」、「魔鬼终结者」以及「异形2」，享有灾难片天王美誉的好莱坞男星比尔派斯顿，因为手术引发的并发症而过世，享年61岁，家人也已经出面证实此事。
Though cases like this are rare, they do happen. The most recent data available suggests that in the U.S., 1.14 percent of patients who go in for surgery never leave the hospital.
But a new study on surgery death rates in Europe, published Thursday in the journal Lancet, may have medical experts wondering whether this figure isn't higher in the U.S.
Researchers in the United Kingdom looked at more than 46,000 patients in 28 European countries who underwent non-cardiac surgery.
They found that 4 percent of them died before they could make it out of the hospital, a figure much higher than previous national estimates for many countries.
In the UK alone, the death rate was 3.6 percent; the previous estimate was 1 percent.
