A
2000 article published on
this website revealed that Western medicine was the
3rd leading
cause of death in the U.S. This meticulous research led by Dr.
Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and
Public Health was published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association. Although this
research highlighted how medicine is literally killing us, it
had some shortfalls. It grossly underestimated the number of
people being killed by the healthcare system.
In
order to come up with a more accurate figure, a group of doctors
and researchers conducted a thorough investigation of deaths in
the U.S. Their painstaking research revealed that Western
medicine now appears to be the leading cause of death. Only heart disease and cancer kill more people than Western
medicine.
Click
HERE
to see the complete research article for yourself,
Death by Medicine.
|
Condition
|
Deaths |
Author/References
|
|
Hospital Adverse Drug Reactions |
106,000 |
Lazarou1 Suh49
|
|
Medical error |
98,000 |
IOM6 |
|
Bedsores |
115,000 |
Xakellis7 Barczak8
|
|
Infection |
88,000 |
Weinstein9 MMWR10
|
|
Malnutrition (in nursing homes) |
108,800 |
Nurses Coalition11
|
|
Outpatient Adverse Drug Reactions |
199,000 |
Starfield12 Weingart112
|
|
Unnecessary Procedures |
37,136 |
HCUP3,13
|
|
Surgery-Related |
32,000 |
AHRQ85 |
|
TOTAL |
783,936 |
references |
source:
www.garynull.com
Top 3 Killers In U.S. (according to
the National Center for Health Statistics)
Latest Final Data for
U.S. Death Rates (2001 figures)
1.
Heart disease: 700,142
2.
Cancer: 553,768
3.
Stroke: 163,538
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
U.K. Not Much Better
To illustrate that these are
not freak statistics, look at how there is a similar story
in the U.K. which diligently follows the drug-based medical
paradigm. British newspaper The Sunday Times reported that
“medical error is the third most frequent cause of death
in Britain after cancer and heart disease, killing up to
40,000 people a year….a further 280,000 people suffer from
non-fatal drug-prescribing errors, overdoses and
infections.”
(The Sunday Times, Blunders by Doctors Kill 40,000 People a
Year in Britain, 19th December 1999.)
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