225,000 die in US annually from medical errors & FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs.
Submitted by go213mph on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 16:128 quotes from a cancer surgeon that will set your hair on fire.
(NaturalNews) His name is Marty Makary. He's a cancer surgeon and researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the School of Public Health.
Propublica's Marshall Allen interviewed him about patient harm, in conjunction with an ongoing propublica investigation.
Keep in mind that these quotes are coming from a mainstream doctor who is inside the system and who believes in the system. That makes Makary's statements all the more shocking.
"...1 in 4 hospital patients are harmed by a mistake."
"A cardiologist in Wisconsin was fired for pointing out that EKGs were misread more than 25% of the time."
"We [doctors] are also evaluated by the number of 'value units' at the end of each fiscal quarter. Our management will sit down with us and say your work units are down or up and in order for you to receive a large bonus you need to increase the number of operations you do..."
In the US, the annual death rate, as a direct result of medical treatment, is 225,000 people. Of those, 106,000 are killed by FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs. The other 119,000 are killed by medical mistreatment in hospitals. This makes medically caused death the third leading cause of mortality in America.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/038249_cancer_surgeon_John_Hopkin...
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Thanks for the post.
Bump.
1 million deaths is more like it with everything factored in.
http://www.docmeade.com/medicine-found-to-be-the-number-one-...
The report showed the number of deaths and associated costs for a number of medically induced, or iatrogenic, conditions. The results were as follows:
Hospital Adverse Drug Reactions - 106,000 deaths and costing $12 billion
Medical Errors - 98,000 deaths and costing $2 billion
Bedsores - 115,000 deaths and costing $55 billion
Infection - 88,000 deaths and costing $5 billion
Malnutrition - 108,000 deaths
Outpatient Adverse Drug Reactions - 199,000 deaths and costing $77 billion
Unnecessary Procedures - 37,136 deaths and costing $122 billion
Surgery-Related - 32,000 deaths and costing $9 billion
Using these, what the report terms "conservative" figures, the total number of iatrogenic deaths each year in the United States is 783,936 at a cost of $282 billion. This number of deaths exceeds the 2001 heart disease annual death rate of 699,697 and the annual cancer death rate of 553,251.
The report also notes that, "we could have an even higher death rate by using Dr. Lucein Leape's 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million. Multiplied by a fatality rate of 14% (that Leape used in 1994) we arrive at an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined." Using these figures in place of the 106,000 deaths from ADRs and the 98,000 deaths from medical errors a new total of 999,936 deaths each year or nearly 1 million deaths can be ascribed to iatrogenic conditions.
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