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Doctors May Be Third Leading Cause of Death
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We found this article at www.ChatenoogaHealth.com, titled: “Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year” written by Dr. Mercola.
From the article:
ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:
- 12,000 — unnecessary surgery 8
- 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals 9
- 20,000 — other errors in hospitals 10
- 80,000 — infections in hospitals 10
- 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs 2
- These total to 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!
Dr. Starfield offers several warnings in interpreting these numbers:
- First, most of the data are derived from studies in hospitalized patients.
- Second, these estimates are for deaths only and do not include negative effects that are associated with disability or discomfort.
- Third, the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report.
If the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000. In any case, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Even if these figures are overestimated, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease).
Another analysis (11) concluded that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients experience negative effects in outpatient settings, with:
- 116 million extra physician visits
- 77 million extra prescriptions
- 17 million emergency department visits
- 8 million hospitalizations
- 3 million long-term admissions
- 199,000 additional deaths
- $77 billion in extra costs
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That is really scary! It makes you really think about these doctors. I think some of them are also scam artists - they want your $$$ so will tell you need this and need that even if you really don’t. (I recently had this happen with a dentist!)
@TR@Help An Alcoholic:
Thanks for writing TR. It’s true. People often think members of the medical profession are entirely altruistic when in fact they are in a money making business.
You makes me scared about these but maybe you are right. I’ve heard a lot of incidents that the patients died because of the doctor.
Scary but true.. Sometimes my parents don’t trust on any doctor because of what we heard about dying because of Doctor’s fault.
Thank you so much for the great article. It is true that it’s hard to trust any members of medical profession. My Auncle died 10 years ago because of their fault.